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OGrDEIN 

170 iLinehioQ City of [.lie V/e^h. j 



Its Advantages as a TWcinufacturing and lousiness G^nteP. 



oonDEisr, 

The Junction Q'ltXf >^ VV)est, 

AN ILLUSTRATED PAMPHLET PUBLISHED FOE THE 
Ogden ©hambbi^ op ©ommei^ge, 

— «• I?Y E. A. McDANIEL, •*— 

EDITOR AND PROrKIKrDK I'F THE 

filler' Mmmiahz Merchant. 
OGDEN CITY, _ _ - UTAH. 

OGDEN CITY. 




eGDEN CITY ha.s been well 
termed the ■'Junction City." 

'^-' It is the 

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^ wes tern 

I terminus 
of the Union 
PaciHc Rail- 
way; the east- 
ern terminus 
of the Central 
Pacific Rail- 
way; northei'n 
t e r m i n u s of 
the Utah Cen- 
tral Railway; 
southern ter- 
minus of the 

Utah & Northern Railway ; and 
western terminus of the Denver & 
Rio Grande Western Railway. It 
is the greatest railroad center in 
Jtali; the jiidicial seat of Weber 
County and the second city in 
size and commercial importance 
in the Territory, and has an esti- 
mated population of 10,000 peo- 
ple. 

Its founder was Captain James 
Brown, of the Mormon Battalion, 

who purchased, June 6, 1S48, a 



tract of land from an Indian 
trader, named Miles M. Goodyear; 
the land on which Ogden City is 
now situated. It was a grant to 
Goodyear from the Spanish Gov- 
ernment, and the purchase by 
Brown was made prior to the 
treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, by 
which the territory of which Utah 
is a part, was ceded to the United 
States. 

This section covered a tract of 
land commencing at the north of 
Weber Cailon and following the 



day it will be one of the most im- 
portant business centers of the 
Great North West; ' already it 
has become a very important 
wholesale market and as the 
years go by it is constantly gain- 
ing ground. ^ 3 — - 
The city is pleasantly located, 
its streets are broad and straight, 
its water supply is abundant and 
pure, being brought in pipes from 
tlie Ogden River out of the canon 
just east of the city. The streets 
are well lighted with electric 



VIEW Ob' 0(;DEN KROiM THE KEXCH. 

base of the mountains north to 
the Hot Springs; thence yvest to 
Salt Lake; thence south along the 
shore of the Lake to a point op- 
posite Weber Canon; thence east 
to the beginning. This land was 
then uncultivated and the price 
paid was $B000. The City of Og- 
den is now the second city of 
Utah as regards population and 
importance. Its railroad c(jn- 
nections and favorable location 
make it certain that at no distant 



lights, tlie cli- 
mate is heal- 
thy, and the 
scenery on all 
sides is grand 
and imposing; 
the Wasatch 
range of moun 
tains aiake a 
Ijeautif ul Ijack 
ground on the 
east, and the 
Great Salt 
Lake stretch- 
es away to the 
west and northwest. 

The Ogden River, which flows 
through the northern portion of 
the city, will some day furnish 
the power for almost any num- 
ber of factories of all kinds. 
These together with the iron 
works already estal)lished, and 
the R. R. shops which will soon 
be an absolute necessity, will' 
make the city an important man- 
ufacturing center. 
The public buildings are all 



OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST 



substantial, and as the citj' in- 
creases in size and importance 
owing to the favorable location 
of the piil)lic grounds, the public 
buildings will of necessity have 
to lie grand and imposing. 

The hotel accommodations of 
the city are first class; in fact, the 
principal hotel is, without doubt, 
the finest hotel in the Territory. 
Ogden is well sui>plied with 
churches, having one Catholic, 
one Episcopal, one Presbyterian, 
one Methodist, one Baptist, and 
the Latter-Day Saints have a 
Tabernacle and several ward 
meeting houses, while those of 
a donl)ting state of mind have 
an Agnostic Hall. Each of the 
churches, except the Baptist, 
has a Mission school under its 
management or superintended 
by competent teachers, most of 
them giving instruction in the 
common branches, while some 
give attention to the higher 
branches of education. The 
Sisters' (Catholic) school is a 
fine and commndiotis liuilding, 
managed with that accuracy 
peculiar to their society. The 
Ogden Academy has just been 
erected by the New West Edu- 
cational Commi-ssion. This is 
the largest and most commo- 
dious school building in the 
Territory, and it will soon be 
one of the leading educational 
institutions in the west. 

The city has a large Central 
school building and several ward 
school houses under the control 
of school trustees of the city. 

The secret and charitable so- 
cieties established in Ogden are 
a Masonic Lodge, Chapter and 
Commandery, Independent Order 
of Odd Fellows, Ancient Order of 
United AVorknien, Knights of 
Pythias, one each of ]\oyal Arca- 
num and Conductors' Brother- 



hood, with a strong membership 
in John A. Dix Post, No. 3, Grand 
Army of the Republic. 

The railroad lines now termi- 
nating here have commenced the 
erection of a magnificent Union 
Passenger Depot, and are arrang- 
ing for extensive freight depots 
which are to be pushed to comple- 
tion, at an outlay of from $400,000 
to ,$.")00,000, thus settling beyond 
dispute that Ogden is to be the 
great railroad center of the inter- 
mountain regions. Its advantages 



their children have educational 
and social advantages. While the 
surrounding States and Territor- 
ies were suffering from intense 
cold during the winter, of 'SG-7, at 
Ogden the thermometer only once 
touched 12 degrees above zero, 
while most of the time during 
the winter for the past fifteen 
years it has seldom reached zero. 
The dryness of the atmosphere, 
tempered down by the influence 
of the great inland sea, make it 
the most desirable place to win- 





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M\1N SIKKM'. I.OOklNi; SOI,! 11. 



— climatic, educational and so- 
cial — as a place of residence are 
very desirable, and are already 
attracting the attention of stock 
and mining men from the sur- 
rounding country and Territories, 
as well as capitalists from a dis- 
tance, to invest in real estate, not 
only for investment, but to make 
homes for themselves where their 
families can indidge in luxuries of 
fresh fruits and vegetal.iles, and 



ter in this latitude. The sum- 
mers are warm but seldom un- 
comfortably hot, the nights be- 
ing cool and refreshing. To 
those who are continually push- 
ing to California for health, we 
would say, stop a year in the 
Salt Lake Valley and we venture 
the assertion that you will be so 
much improved in health and 
pleased with the seasons that you 
will become permanent residents. 



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UTAH FOR HEALTH. 



VERY pretty story is told 
in the Norse mythology, 
and as near as T can re- 
member it rnns as follows : 

Balder, the god of the snmmer 
sunlight, abode among the clouds 
in a royal asgai'd, ate of ambro- 
sial food, and drank the nectar 
of immortality. His father was 
Odin, the progenitor of kings 
and the fountain-head of poetiy, 
painting, and song. Balder was 
the puiicye of gods, who protected 
him from threatened peril or im- 
pending evil. It fell on a day 
that he wandered from home 
without his invisible armor, and 
treacherous Lopter, father of the 
Fenris-wolf, sought to take his 
life. This could be done only by 
Hi ceptivej^'«e.s',se. Lopter there- 
fore, put a spray of the gentile 
lu'cstletoe into the hand of Hoder, 
\\ lio was blind, and bade him 
Cast it toward the spot on which 
Balder was standing; when lo! 
the harmless sprig changed into a 
javelin and Balder was slain. At 
this the gods were struck with a 
speechless horror and funereal 
clouds hung over the earth and 
hid the face of the sun, to symbol 
their mourning. Then Hermod, 
his brother, volunteered to ride 
into the dominion of Death 
(something like Orphens in the 
Greek mythology) to ransom the 
well-beloved son of Odin. Nine 
days and nights he rode his val- 
liant steed, Sleipnir, through Nor- 
wegian bogs, challenging venom- 
ous toads and with his steel corse- 
let warding off the Ygdrasil ser- 
pent, till he was come to the 
mouth of the pit. Here Hermod 
made known his errand and told 
of the great world bowed down 
with grief, and how it refused to 
be comforted. Death replied that 




ENTRANCK TO OGDEN CANON, 



he must have some proof of this 
unusual manifestation, and that 
if all things on the earth — the 
living as well as the lifeless — the 
plumes on forest trees, and the 
mighty sea — the valleys that lay 
in the warm embrace of the sun, 
and the spangled hills — and every 
fish that breasted the ocean, and 
the birds^that floated through the 



great deep of heaven — would 
weep, then should Balder be given 
back. And Thor beat the clouds 
with his hammer and Odin 
moved the hearts of all things 
else, till the earth was a carnival 
of sorrow. 

Of course this is only a pleas- 
ant myth that has come down to 
us through the classic folk-lore of 



OGDEX, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST 



the North; but, nevertheless, it 
most IjeaiitifuUy illustrates the 
grandeur of that self-sacrificing 
devotion which goes into the 
grave to materialize a vanished 
loved one. Though it be a fable 



^reep— if the vanishing soul could 
be brought back to brighten the 
gloom hovering over the fireside. 
And they would fain lie down 
with the worm if this bitter, bit- 
ter cup might only pass away. 




I Al.l.S IN WHKEl.EK'o C.\NON 



visits to the babbling spring well' 

ing out of the leaning hillsides — 

ridi with the breath of clover 

and redolent of sunshine. In the 

morning the sick one puts out a 

thin hand to meet your greeting 

and says: "i am better now, and 

to-morrow I shall be well again. 

But the noon brings deeper roses 

to the cheeks, and unearthly 

splendor to the brilliant eyes; 

and the fiuttering breath goes 

out with the twilight, and no 

morning will ever come. 

Such a brief synopsis of more 
than one-seventh of all the death- 
beds in the world, and it will be 
no wonder if the reader contem- 
plate the above figures with a 
shudder of incrc liility. Bat it is 
nevertheless a fact and I repeat, 
that more than one-seventh of 
the hunnm family die of lung 
nuilady. So you see that the vic- 
tims of consumption are scat- 



we love it because it tells tiie 
story of a fading form Itrought 
back from the realm of shade 
and re-hal)ilitated among the 
scenes of its former conquests. 
The ringing gauntlet has a music 
soft as a mother's lullal)y, but 
cheering with bold melody the 
valley of denth. It sets the star 
of Hope above the shadows that 
hang over the tomb and twines 
its uninviting portal with gar- 
lands of atfection more endureing 
than the ivy and sweeter than 
frankincense. How many time-' 
have I seen kindred and friends 
in mute sorrow around a pros- 
trate form whose restless siiirit 
was about to pass over into the 
realm of shadow and nothingness! 
And so have you, my reader. And 
we have heard them say a thou- 
sand times, plain as the dumb 
eloquence of woe could speak, 
that if their hearts were the 
world, then should all things in it 




I.AULV MOUNIN.; ON OGDEX RIVER. 



Of all death-beds,the consump- 
tive's is the most pitiful, but the 
least to be regretted, because, 
though the end is inevitable.each 
day brings added hope, and pain- 



tered over the earth as thiidv as 
'•Autumn leaves in Valambro- 
sia," but not our dies of that fell dis- 
r<ise in this favored nrjion. In a 
practice here of twelve to four 



(ay brings atmeu uupt-, .hk. i-i.i. f—- , pvten- 

le/s dre Jus of coming health.and teen years more oi less exten 



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sive, I have never seen a case of 
consumption that I thought orig- 
inated here, and I have made dil- 
igent inquiry among my medi- 
cal brethren, and I believe their 
experience is like my ow^n. A 
residence here will restore to 
natural tone lungs already de- 
veloping tuberculosis; but the 
system must not be too much 
broken nor the vital powers too 
much depressed, for lungs already 



life; for the higher one ascends, 
the more attenuated those ele- 
ments become, and the more 
eagerly the instinctive faculty 
reaches out for them. This in- 
creased activity adds to the de- 
velopment of the lungs and the 
walls of the chest for much the 
same reason that the olacksmith's 
hand that wields the hammer is 
larger and stronger than the one 
that does not. 



the pressure, for they are but ru- 
dimentary compared with what 
they must be to live in this at- 
tenuated air. It is only by the 
inhal)itation of the oxygen and 
some other minor elements found 
in the air that combustion is 
maintained and animal life sup- 
ported; and this is found in pro- 
portion to the hight. In other 
words, the horse can live only 
by receiving a given quantity 




destroyed have no more power to 
grow again than an amputated 
finger has to rel)uik1 its several 
organism. I suppose that the in- 
creased altitude above sea level 
has something to do with 
strengthening the lungs as well 
as the muscles that envelope 
them. At this hight one has to 
breathe deeper and more rapidly 
in order to get from the air the 
nutrative qualities that maintain 



t,l.l)(-,.\ lAXll.N. l.iHPKI.Nl, KAM. 

It is well understood by hoi-se 
owners that a horse cannot keep 
up a long continued effort on the 
turf here without fatigue, until 
his lungs become thoroughly in- 
ured to the atmospheric fuel that 
there undergoes combustion foi" 
the purpose of keeping the heart 
up to its prodigious high-pressure 
movement. Why? because the 
air cells will not contain suffi- 
cient air, nor their walls support 



of oxygen, and in this high al- 
titude he has to work over a 
larger quantity of air in order to 
obtain it. '"Where there is a will 
there is a way,"' however, and a 
horse coming from a lower plane 
into this higher one, instinctively 
feels that he mud have more air, 
he sets himself about getting it. 
The nostrils dilate and the vital 
current is pumped into them un- 
til they look like funnels of blood, 



OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST : 



the windpipe expands, the lungs 
distend with each inspiration un- 
til tlio tianks heave and every 
muscle in the hody quivers with 
the strain. How manyan owner 
of a fast horse thinks of this 
when his noble bi'ute is finishing 
a phenominal mile on courage 
alone? If he would but wait a 
year until the lung cells and 
their partitions, together with 
the outci- wrapping of muscles, 
become larger, thicker and 
stronger, to retain the out-pres- 
sure or weight, has been removed 
by this increased height — then 
could a horse trot a mile at the 
top of liis speed with as little dis- 
tress as an engine could go the 
same distance. This is precisely 
true of man. The reader will re- 
meml)er (if he were not born 
here) that when he first came in- 
to this elevation, how frequently 
he had to sit down to recover 
fioni the fatigue incident to ihis 
raiihod air. And if the '"claret" 
did not sjjriiig from his nose he 




OGUKN C.-^iNON NEAR ELliClKlC I.ICHT WORKS. 



these blood-channels become hy- muscular cells that go to make 
pertrophied, or thi(d<ened, l>y the n^) its structure, and these How- 
increased uses to which they are ing down by the natural law of 
put, like the hand that swings the gravitation, into the little air- 
hammer already allud- 
ed to. The prospector 
will tell you that a very 
little fire will serve to 
boil the water in his 
kettle, but to cook the 
dinner it is quite an- 
other thing. To do this 
he must tie down the 
cover to retain the heat. 
Another factor in the 
development of healthy 
lung-action is the ab- 
sem*e of moisture in the 
air. The little cells, 
that everywhere indent 
the lung substance, are 
lined with an exceeding- 
ly delicate membrane 
which !)ecomes irritat- 
ed with the raspings 
of air, the particles 
of which ai'e wedged 
apart by the coar.ser 

\V.\I1CI<I-'.\I.I. CANON. 

pockets of the lungs, soon clog 
and fill them tooverfiowing. Dis- 
ease is the inevital)le consequence 
and death the final panacea. 
Now, there is not much rainfall 
here during the summer months, 
and the soil, from its peculiar 
composition, soon drinks up what 
redundant moisture is not evap- 
orated; while a breeze is con- 
stantly passing down from the 
cold snow region of the moun- 
tains like a river through the 
ocean, to fill tne vacuum always 
present in the warm aii'-cham- 
l)ers of the valley, keeping the at- 
mosphere at all times pure and 
bracing, 

I have not attempted to give 
any fine-spun theories of my own, 
nor sought to weave them to- 




was in luck. These hemorrhages chemical constituents of water, 

take place because the air is not The result is that quantities of 

heavy enough to hold the blood mucous more or less abundant, 

in its vessels, but in a short time are generated in _the sensitive gether with glittering verbiage to 



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bewilder the~reader; but I have 
tried to tell a simple story made 
up of accepted facts, most at 
least, known to the world from 
the days of Hypocrites; and I 
wish that I had more time and 
ability to devote to this charm- 
ing subject, for at every step in 
this boundless field of investiga- 
tion one meets with constant and 
agreeable surprises. Since a 
Committee of the Chamber of 



fhthisis pulmonalis, or consumption 
not one dies from such a disease 
originaiing here. 

Now we are come to speak of 
that foster-sister of Consumption 
and full twin-sister of Misery — 
Asthma — whether humoral or 
dry. After being in this climate 
a year, if one will continue to re- 
main, all the distressing phe- 
nomena common to asthma will 
disappear never to come back 



even as his ancient progenitor 
did when God breathed into his 
nostrils and he became a living 
soul. The sunken eye with its 
black areola and far-away ex- 
pression so common in this dis- 
tressing disease will have its old- 
time look of inspiration come 
back again and be in very fact 
the window of a happy soul. 
The heart will bear its increased 
burden with delight, and the 




Commerce requested me to pre- 
pare this paper for them, T have 
had no time to consult authori- 
ties, but have written "oil hand" 
from memory. But whatever be 
the basis of speculation in this 
matter, or whether the reasons 
that I have advanced be assaila- 
ble or not, the eternal truth re- 
mains, and is indisputable, that 
while more than one seventli of the 
human race die annually with 



WAIN STREET. LOOKING NORTH. 

but in guise of some ugly night- 
mare to remind the robust man 
of the horrid dreams that haunt- 
ed the long hours of his invalid 
night. The doughy, i)atulous face 
will give place to the rosy cheek 
and nourishing blood will pour 
into them from its recent con- 
flict with the air in healthy 
lungs, and the once frail man will 
stand erect on his feet clothed 
with the full majesty of health, 



sick room will lose that frightful 
sound of a strangling victim. 
The lungs will expand with the 
pressure of God's unshackled aii*, 
while every artery will throb with 
pure blood, ambitious to churn 
tlirough all its labyrinthine ways 
to the very toes. As I before in- 
timated, this recovery is sure to 
remain only so long as the pa- 
tient remains here, for candor 
compels me to say that I have 



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OfiDEX, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST 



known many instances of relapse 
on moving out of this rountiy. 
This change from disease to 
liealth does not seem to depend 
so much on the climatic condi- 
tions already explained as upon 
a peculiar element in the air, 
which has been given the name 
of ozone {whatever tliat may l)e, 
for 1 do not know, and a good 
many better than I am are in the 
same boat.) 

Tt is not the object of this 
writer to mislead the public in 
regard to the climate of Ugden 
City and Weber County. Utah, as 
a health-resort; nor to seek by 



have been broken on the cruel 
wheel of want or l)nrnt out bj' 
the tires of dissipation, or in 




1 KI-.Sl;\ n-.KIAN LHLkC H. 

the loose verbiage of an irr 
sponsible chaidatan to praise 
more than a life-long res- 
idence here will justify; 
therefore. T say that all mor- 
bid conditions will by no 
means mend here, and there 
are some diseases that not 
only develop pernicious con- 
ditions, but these rapidly 
augment until death comes 
to close the scene. T have 
no doubt but one far gone 
with consumption or asth- 
ma, one whose vital forces 



e- 
it 




empt; I allude to rahiefi, or hyd- 
rophobia. So far as T know there 
has never been a case reported, 
although we have vastly more 
dogs than we need, and having 
the usual weakness of their kind, 
they quari'el among themselves 
and rip the beggar's heel just the 
same as thej' do anywhere else. 
(The beggar sometimes gets 
angry, but he does not go mad.) 
If one be bit by his favorite 
spaniel he pays no more atten- 
tion to it than the pain demands. 
I >liall not attempt to fornaulate 
a theory on the singular relation- 
sbip between a man's heel and 




COXGRKG \T10NAL CHUKCH. 



BAPTIST CHUKCH. 

battling long with either of 

these merciless maladies, would 

lianlly survive even a few months 

of this pampering air. The system 

cannot stand the strain of disci- 
pline necessary to accomplish the 

end sought. Let one in a tol(>r- 

alily good coiidition. l)ut who feels 

that he has the taint of these 

cruel scourges burning in his 

veins, come out here, and in a 

few months the old neighbors, 

accustomed to liis former hagganl 

appearance, would not know him. 
Let me call your attention to 

another frightful malady from the bite of his dog in this neck o' 

which this favored region is ex. tlie woods: for the fact is I haven't 

any theory, though it is a 
pleasant contemi)lation to 
know that if the dog will 
only survive his attack on 
the tramp, the tramp will 
thrive without inconveni- 
ence. 

And now we come to an- 
other remarkable phenome- 
non not generally known. 
I suppo.se that all plieuome- 
na are remarkable, but this 
EPISCOPAL CHURCH. ouo Is a Httlo out of the 




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common of even strange things. 
We have no sunstroke or coup de 
sole!!. May be people make a 
living here without having to 
work hard enough to heat their 
blood sufficiently to produce this 
morbid condition. May be — but 
no matter, men are never struck 
down here by the sun's rays the 
same as they are elsewhere, ow- 
ing, perhaps, to the conditions 
favorable to ready evaporation 
spoken of elsewhere. This re- 
lieves the blood of its increased 
heat, which theorem is based on 
the same proposition that the 
bottom of a boiling kettle is al- 
ways cool. 



hand, weave their thick cables 
among the trees to trip the un- 
wary traveler, as they are said to 




MF.THODIST CHURCH. 



Venomous reptiles and poison- 
ous insects, such as make life a 
l)urden in the Southern and 
Middle State.s, do not find this a 
healthy climate. Sometimes one 
finds an innocent little bug as a 
lied companion, but it is so sel- 
dom that he would not be lone- 
some without it, and it is re- 
garded more as a social visitor 
or a vara avis, or a souvenir, than 
an interloper. But fieas do not 
swarm out of the earth as I have 
seen them around Los Angeles; 
nor do spiders, large as a baby's 




MORMON T.^BERNACLE. 

do in Arizona, South America, 
and the Hawaiian Islands. The 
"rattler" is seldom found out- 
side his haunts in the mountains. 
St. Patrick may have pul)lished 
his uk(.ii<o forbidding him this 
beautiful retreat reserved for the 
delightful habitation of man; I 
do not know. But true it is that 
in the harvest field, where such 
accidents are most common else- 
where, the meditations of the 
hired num are not disturbed by 
the hiss of the deadly adder nor 
the rattle of his snakeship; (es- 
pecially if the man leave his jug 
at home.) But I fear that the 
reader has found this paper al- 
ready too tediously long, and as 
a line has to be drawn somewhere 
I will draw it at " snakes," and so 
conclude this imperfect mono- 
graph on Ogden City, as a natural 
sanitariuu). 

APPRECIATION. 

1. A case of Phthisis Pulmonis, 
or Tuberculosis, or Consumption, 
as a primary of idiopathic disease 
has never been known here. 



2. Asthma has never been 
developed here, but, on the con- 
trary, when one comes here al- 
ready stricken with it a quick, 
suriH-ising and almost spontan- 
eous cure is effected. 

3. Lungs, weak from whatever 
cause, grow rapidly strong again; 
and the morbid conditions of 
them change to healthy function 
so rapidly that the patient can 
hardly comprehend it. 

4. There has never been a case 
of simon-pure sun-stroke for any 
chronicler to record in the history 
of any of these settlements. 

5. There has never been a re- 
corded or observed instance of a 




CATHOLIC CHURCH. 



dog "running mad" or the vic- 
tim of his bite being seized with 
hydrophobia. 

6. Venomous reptiles are en- 
tirely unknown here, except the 
rattlers, which are extremely 
rare, and confine themselves to 
mountain locations and are al- 
most inaccessible to man or do- 
mestic animals. 

A. S. Condon, M. D. 

\_Repnbluhid from Ihc columns of the Ogden 
Herald:\ 



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OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST: 



OUR INLAND SEA. 



GREAT SAl/r LAKE lias long 
I)een a curiosity that lias puz- 
zled the minds of those who 
have mado it a study. Whether 
it was formerly a i)art of the 
ocean, or whether it is the result 
of volcanic action is not known. 
Next to the Dead Sea it contains 
more salt to the gallon than any 
other body of water on fhc face 
of tlie earth. 



rule does not always hold good 
however, for it has been observed 
that when the snow and rain was 
less than usual, the evaporation 
would be in excess of the supplj% 
and when two or three dry years 
follow in succession, the water 
becomes more salt, and the sur- 
face of the Lake decreases at the 
rate of 75 or 100 square miles a 
year. When wo have heavy snow 
in the winter, and a heavy rain- 
fall in tlH> snriiiL;-. witli occasional 




Doctor Smart of the U. S. Armj% 
in 1S77. He found an imperial 
gallon to contain nearly twenty- 
four and a half ounces of saline 
matter, amounting to nearly four- 
teen per cent: 

Common Salt 11,735 

Carboniite of Lime oit; 

Sulphate of Lime 073 

Epsom Salts 1.123 

Chloride of Maguesia 843 

Percentage of Solids I3.7<t() 

Water Hr).2in 

1(X).000 
One hundred grains of the dry 
soliil matter contained: 



AHON'K IHK CI.Ol US, l-_.\sr oh OG.lES. 



It has a [leculiar effect upon 
the climate of this valley. The 
temi:)erature during the winter 
scarcely ever reaches zero, and 
while it is very warm at times 
during the summer, we are never 
subjected to long seasons of ex- 
treme hot weather. The Lake 
breezes always insure cool nights 
and refreshing sleep. The air is 
so extremely dry that the water 
in the Lake evaporates very fast. 
During tlie winter and sj)ring, an 
immense amount of water flows 
into the Lake, causing it to rise 
from one to two feet, and if it 
was not for this evaporation the 
Lake would grow larger every 
year. On an average, about as 
much water evaporates during 
the summer as flows in durin<£ 
the winter and spring. This 



rain through -lune and 
•Inly, the evaporation 
does not equal the sup- 
ply, and the water in 
the Lake rises and falls, 
th(> difference between 
high and low water be- 
ing about eight feet. 

It compares with oth- 
er Itodies of salt water 
about as follows: 

Water. Solids. 

Atlantic- Ocean 96.5 3.5 

Mediterranean 96.2 3.8 

Dead Sea 76.0 24.0 

Great Salt Lake 86.0 14.0 

And in specific gravity distilled 
water being unity: 

( )cean water 1.020 

Head Sea 1.1 if, 

Great Salt Lake 1.107 

The following is an analysis of 




LOLU W.\TER CANON. 

Common Salt 85.089 

Carbonate of Lime 117 

Sulphate of Lime 531 

Epsom Salts 8.145 

Chloride of Magnesia 6.118 

lCt).000 

The Lake is fast becoming 
popular for sea bathing; the 
water is so buoyant that it is im- 
possible to sink, and anyone can 
switn in it. P(>ople who have 



the water of the Lake made bv tried all of the famous sea bath' 



ITS MANUFACTURING AND BUSINESS ADVANTAGES. 



11 



iug resorts in the world, say that 
they have never found anything 
to equal it. One can remain in 
the water from one to six hours 
without being exhausted or feel- 
ing any bad effects from it. 

Captain Paul Boyton, who 
sjient several weeks in this Ter- 
ritory in 1886, says that he never 
has found a body of water to 
equal it. He came near losing 
his life in attempting to cross 



than alive, and although he is a 
brave man, money could not in- 
duce him to again go upon the 
Lake during a storm. 

Several elegant bathing resorts 
have been built on the shores of 
the Lake during the last two 
years, and thousands of people 
take a dip in the briny sea during 
the bathing season, Tourists are 
delighted and they tell their 
friends to be sure and take a 



IRON KING. 



ONE of our leading industrial 
men said the other day: 
"What would you think if I 
were to say to you that in Alaska 
they have whole mountains of 
iron ore, which, when smelted, 
will produce pigs of cast iron so 
malleable that they can be beaten 
out into thin plates, and then 
polished like the finest steel ? 




OGDKN CANON LOOKINc; WKST, GREAT SALT LAKK IN THE DISTANCE. 



to Church Island from Garfield 
beach, a distance of only a few 
miles, during a storm. He would 
not have feared to round the most 
dangerous point on the Atlantic 
Coast in such a storm,but he could 
do nothing in the waters of the 
Great Salt Lake on this occasion; 
the waves struck against him like 
lead, and he was knocked about 
like a piece of cork, and at last 
he was washed ashore more dead 



bath in the Lake if they come 
this way during the bathing sea- 
son. All along the shore elegant 
places for summer residences 
are to be found, and in a few 
years hundreds of homes will be 
built, and people east and west 
will spend the hot months away 
from the toil and care of business, 
and regain health and strength 
by bathing in our inland sea, and 
breathing our pure mountain air. 



" Wouldn't you say that the 
quicker we could run a railroad 
into that country to bring out 
some of the iron possessing such 
wonderful properties, the better 
for all our industrial pursuits in 
which this staunch metal is .so 
great a factor ? 

"I think you would. Well, 
this kind of iron exists. It exists 
in quantities so vast that if the 
number of tons were stated, the 



12 



OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST : 



amount would be beyond the 
comprehension of an ordinary 
mind. The ore is easy of treat- 
ment, and, when the metal is 
cast into pig, one of the pigs can 
be ]>ent and broken, and a piece 
of it laid on an anvil and ham- 
mered, without l)eing cracked or 
splintered, into a thin plate. It 
actually beats all the .stories of 
malleability that ever I read or 
heard outside of those related of 
gold, which of course, can be 
beaten into leaf. 

" Don't you think that in pos- 
sessing such a wonderful re- 
source, Alaska has something 



tains existed in Alaska, or within 
the Antarctic circle, or on the 
moon, all the railway companies, 
and all the smelting men, and all 
the iron workers in the country 
would be scheming and planning 
to build a road to reach the iron 
fields: and forming coiupanii^s to 
erect smelters and iron works 
there." 

Another gentleman, who de- 
votes some of his time to scien- 
tific pursuits, said: 

•' Let me tell you. sir. that if by 
some natural or legal obstacle all 
importation of iron goods into 
this country had lieeii stopped 




UNION DKIOI. 



better than her silver mines, or 
her seal fisheries ? Because this 
resource is practically inexhaust- 
ible. It could supply the world 
with iron for a thousand years to 
come. 

" I have said that iron ore pos- 
sessing these properties does 
exist. This is true; but not in 
Alaska, so far as I know. It 
exists here, at our very doors, 
within half an hour's ride of the 
great railway junction in Ogden. 
And probably that is the reason 
why so few of us know anything 
about it. If these iron moun- 



fifteen yeai's ago, Utah in general 
and Ogden in particular would 
have been the greatest manufac- 
turing center of iron and steel 
goods in the whole world. Kven 
if we had not been able to bring 
in skilled labor, nor experienced 
furnace builders and iron workers, 
we still could have accomplished 
this work. It might have been 
necessary for us to go back and 
begin in tht^ primitive fashion, as 
men began countless ages ago, 
when they first learned to ex- 
tract the ore from the mountains 
and roast it to get the helpful 



metal. Prehistoric man was the 
worker in iron. He threw lumps 
of ore into a fire of wood or char- 
coal, and after the ore was in 
whole or in part reduced, he 
hammered the mass of spongy 
metal, thus formed, into such 
shapes as suited his untutored 
fancy, and were possible under 
his unskilled hands. And if we 
had been obliged to adopt this 
plan, we could have compassed 
the experience of a score of cen- 
turies within two or three years 
in this fast moving stage, and by 
this time the products of our 
mills would have rankeil among 
the highest in the world. 

■• The great wonder to me has 
been that we have wilfully failed 
to take advantage of our circum- 
stances simply because we were 
not forced to take advantage of 
them. There is scarcely an arti- 
cle manufac^^ured from iron in 
any of its forms which could nol 
be produced here, it only the 
men of ex[)er'ence and ca[)ital 
would, locate at this [loiut, and 
give their attention to this sub- 
ject. Fortune stands ready to 
shower her blessings upcui tbe 
enterprising man who inaugur- 
ates this industrial. 

We read not long since of t'ar- 
negie, the iron king; who, in a 
brief time, has nnide himself a 
prince in the royal family of the 
industrialists, by means of this 
very metal, iron. 

" For one, I stand ready to 
take of my hat to the man who 
will make himself, right here in 
Ogden, the iron king of America. 
He can do it by having a large 
stock of grit and experience, and 
a moderate stock of capital." 

Another, a scholarly man, said: 

'■ In my estimation, iron is the 
noblest of metals; and I regret 
that so little is thought of it in 
this land, and that we have in the 



ITS MANUFACTURING AND BUSINESS ADVANTAGES. 



13 



past utterly refused to claim its 
acquaintanceship, although it 
has waited patiently at our doors 
for recognition. Lycurgus 

avowed only a practical reason 
for banishing gold and silver 
money from Sparta, and using 
nothing but iron for coin; but in 
my admiration for iron, I ascribe 
to the great law-giver a poetical 
feeling in making his decree. To 
others, iron may be homely — too 



down for $1.50 to |2 per ton. 
The ore is extremely rich, and 
yet easily worked. There are 
several kinds of ore, each having 
peculiar quality; but of each 
there is enough to supply a 
score of furnaces through all 
time to come. Some of these 
ores are in demand for fluxing 
purposes. We have recently 
seen a letter from the office of 
one of the principal smelters at 



he said that prehistoric man cast 
his ore into a fire and drew it 
forth, half-heated, to pound it 
into useful shapes. 

The quality and quantity of 
the iron ores around Ogden are 
such that any iron worker who 
may examine the question can- 
not avoid a feeling of enthusiasm. 

The low lands of Ogden are 
productive of natural gas. It is 
the opinion of our industrial 




plain to excite affectionate re- 
gard; but I confess myself its 
ardent devotee, and I think as 
much of Lycurgus for this one 
act, as for all his other reforms 
combined." 

It is true that Ogden has with- 
in easy reach inexhaustible quun- 
tities of iron ore. At any point 
within the city limits where 
works might be established, the 
best grades of ore can be laid 



U. iLlKN CANUN, LOOKING EASl'. 

Butte, agreeing to purchase any 
quantity of ore which may be 
shipped from a certain mine at 
Ogden, and to pay therefore $5.50 
per ton. Negotiations are now 
on foot to secure a railway freight 
rate which will enable the mine 
owners to begin shipment. 

Another mine assays 57 per 
cent of pure iron. This must be 
the class of ore to which our 
scientific friend referred when 



men that sufficient gas could be 
brought up from a number of 
wells, and united in one pipe, to 
answer for all smelting purposes. 
The gas w^orks will give a consider- 
able quantity of coke. In addition. 
Pleasant Valley slack, which is 
very cheap in this market, can be 
used with admirable success. 

Water power is to be had sim- 
ply for the asking. 

Convenient locations upon 



u 



OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST : 



which to erect necessary works, 
can be obtained at nominal prices. 

The deniand for iron in this re- 
gion is very great. Tlie ojiportii- 
nity for the establisliniont oi 
foundries to use the product of 
iron smelters could not be better. 

While foundries in the East 
are crowded beyond their capaci- 
ty in cerinin lines of 
manufacture, the West 
must wait for its needed 
supplies. And this thing 
must continue year af- 
ter year, indefinitely, 
unless we learn to use 
the bounties provided 
by nature for our con- 
venience and wealth. 

Iron works were once 
established in Ogden ; 
but, through misman- 
agement, legal chican- 
ery, and possibly some- 
thing not far removed 
from dishonesty, the 
stockholders were bled 
to death and the works 
— right in the dawn of 
a mighty success— were 
abandoned. 

Local capitalists who 
know the advantages to 
be derived from iron 
works here have always 
hesitated since that day 
to put their money in 
such an enterprise; be- 
cause they would be, in 
the main, dependent 
upon strangers for the manage- 
ment of an afiair of the kind; 
because few men here are sup- 
posed to have a practical under- 
standing of the subject. 

But this question only needs a 
little examination on the part of 
any man acquainted with the iron 
industry to convince him, if he 
be a reasonable person, that the 
finest opportunity of the age ex- 
ists here to-day. 



Some (quantities of iron have 
been produced here from the ores 
within easy reach. 

In one instance two ores were 
Idended, and car wheels were 
made from the product. They 
were sent to San Francisco, tested 
there, and put immediately into 
use. The firm which handled 




WEHKR COUNTV COURT HOUbK. 

them down at the Bay said that 
they were made from the best 
iron f(n' this purpose to ])e found 
in the known world; they ha<l an 
especial toughness, and yet light- 
ness, which could not be paralled 
by the product of any other iron 
region. This firm issued its order 
for an unlimited quantity of car 
wheels and other goods; but the 
order never received attention, 
for the causes heretofore stated. 



Stoves were successfully made. 
The incident related in the 
opening of this article about the 
malleability of cast iron is not 
exaggerated. It is a positive fact 
that the pig of the cast iron_made 
without especial care from the 
l)lended ores of this region, can 
be hammered into a plowshare or 
a pruning hook. 

We are informed that 
a gentleman is here 
from the East who in- 
tends to esta])lish works 
on a mammoth scale at 
this point. He was to 
have begun operations 
earlier than this time; 
but ill health has pre- 
vented, and it is barely 
possible that his per- 
sonal misfortune may 
liecome a permanent 
community disaster; be- 
cause he cannot proceed 
until he recovers his 
wonted strength and 
energy. He is l)acked 
l)y unlimited capital: 
and he recognizes the 
advantages and neces- 
sities of iron works at 
Ogden. the natural cent- 
er of the inter-mountain 
region. 

Even with tlie estab- 
lishment which he pro- 
poses to make here, the 
field cannot be filled. 
We are located at a 
[)oint which enables producers 
and manufacturers to ship easily 
to any spot on the civilized glolio. 
The constant railroad budding in 
this region creates a demand for 
rails and spikes enough to keep 
mighty mills in operation. 

Capitalists are cordially invited 
to give this matter investigation. 
It is no impracticable scheme: 
but it is such an opportunity as 
will appeal to the business sense 



ITS MANUFACTURING AND BUSINESS ADVANTAGES. 



15 



of any person having means and 
experience in iron working, 

The man who accepts this situ- 
ation fully, and prosecutes the 
necessary works without delay, 
will in very truth become the 
Iron King of the West. 

F. J. Cannon, 

Editor Oi;den Herald. 



unsurveyed, and hence not in 
market, but can be taken under 
squatters' rights. Lands which 
were considered worthless five 
years ago are now sought after, 
since dry farming — raising crops 
without irrigation — has become 
common, and artesian wells have 
become practicable in many arid 



A PRACTICAL MAN. 



UTAH'S LANDS 



ZTHE REPORT of 
v5/ the United States 
Land office in Salt 
Lake City, for the year 
ending June 20, 18S7, 
shows that up to that 
date, there had been 
surveyed inUtah, lands 
to the aggregate of 
II. ()y(),7Sl acres. Since 
that date contracts 
have been let, and the 
work of making sur- 
veys either completed, 
or now in progress, or 
soon to be done, to the 
amountof about 1,118,- 
300 acres more. Among 
the lands to be sur- 
veyed and brought into 
uiarket soon are four 
military reservations 
which the army have 
abandoned and the 
lands of which are to 
be added to the public 
domain and placed on 
sale. These approxi- 
mate the following number of 
acres: 

Crittenden 207,000 acres 

Thornburg 23,000 " 

Cameron 22 400 " 

RushLake .'.■ lo.'ooo " 




OGllKN RIVKK. 



localities. Lands are being en- 
tered to such an extent as to keep 
the Land Office in Salt Lake City 
well employed. 



Total 262,400 " 

Of the nearly thirteen million 
acres of land surveyed, and in 
progress of survey by the Govern- 
ment, probably not much over 
one half has been disposed of, so 
there remains very much land 



Ogden is to have a new $30,000 
city hall. Architects are now at 
work on the plans. 

Our wholesale merchants have 
had a prosperous season so far. 
Business has steadily increased 
since September. 



KA Y eastern friend, I want to 
/ \ give you a little plain Amer- 
ican common sense talk. If 
you are a manufacturer let me 
present to you an unvarnished 
statement of facts. 

Suppose your line is woolen 
goods and your loca- 
tion is in the Atlantic 
region. You first invest 
an enormous capital in 
a plant: then another 
enormous amount in a 
stock of raw material; 
then another enor- 
mous amount in the 
labor necessary to pro- 
duce the finished goods 
— all these expendi- 
tures before you can 
hope for returns. You 
are subjected constant- 
ly to the danger of 
strikes and anarchistic 
efforts to disorganize 
social and commercial 
prosperity. The vast 
" corners " accom- 
plished, often by un- 
scrupulous men and 
speculative dealers, 
keep your business in a 
constant state of com- 
parative uncertainty; 
and despite all the en- 
ergy which you pos- 
sess, you know that 
very often you meet 
with disheartening reverses. At 
the best, the return upon your 
investment is nowhere near ade- 
quate to the amount involved and 
the risk taken. 

I want now to show you how 
you can avoid throwing money 
away for needless expenses in 
your business; and how you can 
save that money to yourself and 
the poor purchaser of your goods. 
The City of Ogden, the second 



16 



OGDEN, THE JUNCTIO]S^ CITY OF THE WEST 



town in wealth, population and 
importance in Utah, and the 
greatest railroad and industrial 
center of that Territory and of 
the entii'e inter-raountain region, 
offers an opening which you are 
recreant to your own interests if 
you do not accept. This city 
possesses ten thousand inhabit- 
ants. It has cheap lands and 
factories. Its water power can 
only be compared to that which 
would be afforded by Niagara, if 
that stuiicndous cataract could 
be controlled. The city is the 
center of an immense region of 
supjily of raw material and de- 
mand for finished goods. And 
yet we, the wool-growers of this 
region, bale our wool here in all 
its virgin dirt, and ship it to Bos- 
ton at an actual expense for wool 
carriage of five cents a pound — 
paying for dirt the same freight 
as for wool. Vou Iniy the wool 
from third hands, paying an item 
of advance upon the price in each 
case. Then you manufacture it 
into such goods as we need in 
this region, where nearly all the 
clotlies used by men are of a pure 
wool. You sell to jobbers who 
ship these goods to us, and we 
buy them from third hands, at an 
enormous freight, i)aying an item 
of advance upon Hie price in each 
case. 

Why can we not form a com- 
bination to enrich each other? I 
would like, of course, to get a 
better price for my wool; but I 
assert boldly — and I speak from 
my class when I say — that we 
would pref(n- to sell to factories 
located here, without gaining a 
cent on present prices, than to 
sell to dealers who would ship 
the wool abroad, to the eventual 
detriment of our countrj^ 

These are some of the very 
simple facts concerning wool. 1 
am surprised_;that they have not 



been recognized and taken ad- 
vantage of long ago by eastern 
manufacturers. 

This .same line of argument ap- 
plies to you if you are a manu- 
facturer of iron, glass, leather 
goods, or almost any other class 
of fabrics or machinery. 

WOOLGROWER. 



SACRED HEART ACADEMY 



ZTinS institution is under the 
V--^ direction of the Sisters of the 
Holy Cross, and is situated in 
one of the finest localities of 
Ogden. The buildings are hand- 




III Aui ACArihAn . 



.some and commodious, and in 
every way well suited for educa- 
tional purposes and contain spec- 
ial advantages for the physical 
health and comfort of the pupils. 
The salubrity of the fresh air and 
mountain breezes from the Wa- 
satch range under whose shadows 
it stands, makes it a vei'ital)le 
sanitarium. The foundation of 
these buildings was lai<l by Ixiglit 
Kevcrend Bishop Scanlan (then 
Father Scanlan,) in 1878, and 
was formally opened the same 
year by a staff of seven Sisters, 
with a roll call of forty pupils. 
The sisters offer the advantage of 
a thorough education to young 



ladies entrusted to their care, 
sparing no pains to promote the 
best moral influence, as well as 
the health and happiness of their 
pupils, "mens sana in corpore 
sano" being one of their mottos. 
As the hope of reward sweetens 
labor, crowns of honor, gold and 
silver medals and other premi- 
ums are among the numy incen- 
tives made use of to emulate 
study and lady-like deportment 
among the students. Pupils of 
all denominations are received, 
and whilst the utmost care is 
taken in the religious instruction 
of the children of Catholic parents 
there is no interference 
with the religious opin- 
ions of those of a differ- 
ent belief,but for the sake 
of good dicipline how- 
ever, all are required to 
attend public and religi- 
ous exerci.ses. No wonder 
the fame of the Academy 
has .spread far beyond 
Utah, and to-day there 
■ are seventeen Sisters ac- 

[f!nn::;i;;:ii;dJv.^-'-*|^^^|^^^_^ structiou of .sixty l)oaril- 
ers from the Territories 
and States of the Pacific 
Coast, and one hundred 
and thirty day pupils. The schol- 
astic year is divided into two 
sessions of five months eacli. 
The first session commences on 
the first Monday in September 
and ends on the last of January. 
The second session commences 
on the first day of February and 
ends the latter part of June. 
Pupils are I'eceived at all times 
during the year. The curriculum 
of studies comprises languages, 
music, painting, drawing, sewing 
plain and fancy, and in fact all the 
solid and ornamental require- 
ments which make the perfect 
lady. This institution is one of 
which Ogden is justly proud. 



ITS MANUFACTURING AND BUSINESS ADVANTAGES. 



17 



THE CENTRAL SCHOOL. 



T^HE Central School, as its 
v5^ name indicates, is situated, 
geographically and in the 
matter of population, very near 
the center of the rapidly-growing 
city of Ogden. 

As a public school building it 
stands pre-eminently artistic in 
design and noble in structure. 

When compared to buildings 
used for similar purposes, in the 



The best and most attractive 
structures of all communities 
should be their educational insti- 
tutions; and as Ogden has per- 
formed this duty well, words of 
commendation are appropriate. 

The building contains four 
large recitation rooms, two on 
each floor— the building being- 
two stories, of brick — with wide 
halls between, and some five 
small rooms, one of which is used 
as a library, containing several 




the common branches, and intro- 
duces higher studies, when de- 
manded. The present higher 
studies are rhetoric,' mental and 
moral philosophy, civil govern- 
ment and political ethics, physi- 
ology, physical geography, book- 
keeping and general history. A 
normal class is also instructed 
in the theory of teaching. Vocal 
music is taught in all the depart- 
ments. 
The immediate environments 
of the building cannot be sur- 
passed in the Territories. A 
large and commodious yard, 
well shaded, affording a fine 
ground for recreation, is in the 
rear, while the front is Ogden's 
pride, in the matter of lawns, 
with its beds of variegated 
flowers, making, from early 
spring to the frosts of autumn, 
one of the lovliest spots in our 
beautiful city, exercising a re- 
fining influence upon teacher 
and pupil, and causing the 
tourist, as he passes, to stop 
and admire. 



OGDEN ACADEMY. 



Hh.H SCHOOL. 



Territory, it is a monumental 
edifice, erected to the honor of 
the progressive minds that con- 
ceived it, and the generous pub- 
lic spirit of the men who fur- 
nished the means to execute the 
conception. At the same time 
no people deserve special praise 
for erecting good school houses. 
This is one of the great moral 
obligations that rests upon all 
civilized men. It is a duty, and 
they should only be commended 
for performing duty. 



hundred volumes, and the others 
for recitation and other purposes. 

The seating capacity will ac- 
commodate 400 pupils. The 
rooms are large, well seated, 
lighted and heated, with good 
ventilation: and also supplied 
with maps, charts, globes etc. 

At present the course of study 
comprehends four departments, 
Academic (two parts), Grammar, 
and Intermediate. 

The course of instruction com- 
pletes the advanced studies of 



M OT a more desirable loca- 
/ N tion can be found in all 
the beautiful city of Og- 
den than was chosen by the 
New West Education Commis- 
sion, on the corner of Fifth and 
Spring streets for Ogden Academy. 
The building is of brick, two 
stories and basement. On the 
first floor are four large school 
rooms, with ample halls and cloak 
rooms; on the second floor, one 
school room, a library, and a 
hall with a seating capacity of 
over six hundred. All the rooms 
are arranged according to the 
most approved methods for 
school purposes. In the base- 
ment are the furnaces, a labora- 



18 



OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST 



tory, and rooms for gymnasium 
and other similar purposes. The 
heating and ventilation have 
received careful attention, and 
arc practically perfect. 

The course of study has been 
carefully prepared and includes 
those branches usually taught in 
Eastern academies, fitting pupils 
for college. Beside the academic 
department there is a graded 
course of study beginning with a 
primary class, and continuing 
through the intermediate and 
grammar grades. A kindergar- 
ten department will be organized 



fit them for the duties and re- 
sponsibilities of matui-e years. 
Those who trust pupils to this 
institution may feel assured that 
no pains will be spared to train 
them to good habits and to help 
them to establish good characters. 
A boarding house for pupils 
will be opened whenever there is 
a demand for it. Pupils wishing 
such accommodations will be 
under the immediate and con- 
stant care of the faculty, who will 
provide for their comfort and 
good conduct, and will exercise a 
parental watchfulness over them. 




RESIDENCE OF JUDGE P. H. EMERSON. 



when the funds of the society 
will permit. The teachers have 
all had long experience in East- 
ern schools, and bring to their 
work here the ripe culture of 
years of successful school work. 
The aini of the Academy is to 
develop intellectual, moral and 
spiritual strength by means of a 
thorough and symmetrical edu- 
cation under Christian influences. 
The conduct of the pupils is the 
constant care of the teachers who 
strive to inspii-e them with a 
true and noble ambition, and to 



SCHOOL OF THE GOOD 
SHEPHERD. 



rZOR the purpose of giving a 
1 Christian education to chil- 
dren of all denominations 
the present building was erected 
by the Episcoijal Church, and 
opened in the latter part of 1877. 
It is a brick structure of two 
stories, containing three class 
rooms, located on the corner of 
Young and Fourth streets. The 
school opened on the first Monday 
in last September with an enroll- 



ment of 92 pupils, which number 
has steadily increased until at 
present there are over 140 names 
on the books of the school. For 
the first term of four months there 
has been an average attendance 
of over 90 per cent. The princi- 
pal of the school has in several 
cases been compelled to refuse 
admission to new pupils from 
want of accomodation, as the 
seating accomodations are now 
crowded to their utmost capacity 
consistent with health. 

The price of tuition in the 
Higher Department, which is 
taught by Prof. A. C. Newill, is 
$2 per month, of the Intermedi- 
ate Department, taught by Miss 
A. Sweet, is $1.50 per month, and 
of the Primaiy Department, 
taught by Miss Mable Cross, is $1 
per month. These tuition rates 
are entirely inadequate to sup- 
port the school, as the revenue of 
the school from these sources 
only covers 50 per cent, of the 
expenses. In order to be able to 
conduct the school as it should 
be conducted, the school is de- 
pendent on the donation of an- 
nual scholarships of $40, which 
are given by Sunday Schools and 
generous individuals in the East 
who appreciate the sacredness 
and importance of this mission- 
ary work. The course of study 
pursued in the school is modeled 
closely after the courses of study 
adopted in the best Eastern pub- 
lic schools, and all pupils before 
graduating can obtain a good 
High School education from "The 
School of the Good Sheperd." As 
proof of this it may be mentioned 
that one pupil recently matricu- 
lated at Yale, and another at St. 
Stephen College, New York, im- 
mediately after leaving this 
school. The keen interest taken 
by parents in the welfare of the 



ITS MAJSrUFACTURING AND BUSINESS ADVANTAGES. 



19 



school, and the ever increasing 
number of applications for admis- 
sion are the best proofs of the 
school's success, and strenuous 
efforts will in the near future be 
put forth to accommodate all pu- 
pils who may wish to enjoy the 
privilege of attending the school. 



students' progress. The strictest 
disciplinary tactics are practiced 
throughout the school. The 
school year is divided into four 
terms of ten weeks each. A short 
vacation is given at the end of 
each term and also the usual holi- 
day vacation and legal days. 



teachers are enabled to report 
good and regular attendance. 

This school seems to be on a 
fair road toward a healthy school 
and it is hoped the patrons and 
people will give it the patronage 
it justly merits. 




OUR SCENERY. 



RESIDENCE OF L. B. ADAMS. 



ONE of the most desirable 
things in life is to live where 
there are beautiful surround- 
ings. Beautiful scenery is almost 
always pictured with mountains, 
lakes, rivers and trees. Places 
that have these are selected as 
resorts the world over. It is be- 
cause of these qualities that the 
Ogden scenery is so noted. 

The city of Ogden is located 
about three miles west of the 
base of the Wasatch mountains, 
and seven miles northeast of the 
Great Salt Lake. The Wasatch 



OGDEN SEMINARY. 



^THE Ogden Seminary, Method- 
v2^ ist School, is at present, in 
charge of L. M. Gillilan and 
wife. The school, proper, has two 
departments besides an Industrial 
school and Instrumental Music. 
In the two departments every 
thing from the rudiments to pre- 
paratory collegiate studies, such 
as higher mathematics, latin, 
greek, elementary science, etc., 
are taught. In the higher de- 
partment special attention is 
given always to the underlying 
principles of the subject under 
consideration ; familiar topics are 
discussed, and in all the principle 
of education, educo is followed 
and students drawn o?/Hnstead of 
stuffed with facts such as are 
only intended for encyclopedias. 
Test examinations are held at the 
end of every term to give parents 
and guardians some idea of the 




RESIDENCE OF J. C. ARMSTRONG. 



Improvements on the school 
premises and new regulations in 
all have been inaugurated during 
the year and everything seems to 
be cared for and looked after. 

Improvement in attendance is 
also noticeable and now the 



range comes nearly to the Lake 
on the north, and form a semi- 
circle around Ogden, then south 
parallel with the Lake. The sage 
brush plains thus enclosed are 
rapidly being planted with tl-^es. 
Canons enter this semicircle of 



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OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST : 



mountains, giving a circulation 
of air. Ogden River comes in 
through the mountains east of 
the city and enters the Lake. Sev- 
eral miles south, the Weber River 
enters the valley and joins the 
Ogden about a mile below the city. 
A view of the valley and city, 



tains around Ogden as they see 
them from the depot, but they 
cannot in passing through, get 
an idea of the real grandeur of 
the situation. 

Ogden Canon is one of the pret- 
tiest in the Territory; the scenery 
there is varied and is so grand as 



CLIMATIC. 




KKSliaCNCE OF H. O. HAKKNESS. 



ZTlIE following editorial from 
v2/ the Salt Lake Trilnnic gives 
tiie facts in regard to our 
climate exactly as they are: 

A gentleman went from the 
East last fall to California and 
spent the winter in Los .\ngeles. 
He had weak lungs, and sought 
the soft air which is loaded with 
the incense of orange blossoms, 
for a poultice for his lungs. But 
lie found another enemy there. 
The excessive humidity of the air 
had its elTect. aiid when the inun 
liassed through here, he was all 
twisted up with rheuuiatisiu and 
suifering greatly. He was ad- 
vised to remain here and try the 
I lot Springs or the Warm Springs, 
and was proinispd that in three 
weeks he should l)e all right. We 
hold his case as typical of what 
is to be. As men have to leave 
Los Angeles and come here to 



from the mountains, is one which 
cannot be excelled for grandeur 
anywhere. It presents to the 
view a complete map of all the 
streets, buildings and improve- 
ments, of the fields and groves, of 
the five railroads centering here, 
of the Great Salt Lake with its 
promontory and its mountain 
islands, and of the various set- 
tlements in the valley. 

A boulevard is to be built east 
from the northern part of the 
city to the mountains southward 
back of the city. At the base of 
the mountains where this boule- 
vard goes the valley and city is 
presented as a view the like of 
which few cities can boast. 

Few ti-avelei-s ever see Ogden 
in passing through. Salt Lake 
City, being the most historic in 
the Territories, is sought more by 
visitors. They admire the moun- 




i: I 11 i| \i I 1 iF P. I. HAUKATT. 



to cause those who visit to wish 
to repeat their visit often. Many 
travelers who have been in the 
wildest scenery of America and 
Europe, after passing through 
this caiion, have made the state- 
ment, that it is the prettiest 
canon they ever saw. 



shake off the effects of that clim- 
ate, so we suspect the boom, 
which has been the property of 
Los Angeles, will, like the sick 
man, gravitate here in due time. 
When it comes to selling climate 
by the front foot, we have a cor- 
ner on the market. We expect 



ITS MANUFACTURING AND BUSINESS ADVANTAGES. 



21 



to be able, within a few days, to 
lay before The Tribune readers 
the proofs, from a high scientific 
source that the climate of Og- 
den is better for persons who 
have diseased or weak lungs than 
Los Angeles itself, while for a 
dozen other complaints that 
afflict ]50or humanity, the advan- 
tages are all with us. Again, the 
effect of the climate of Southern 
California is prostrating; men 



yearly to and fro across the con- 
tinent, compare notes, they be- 
gin to understand this fact, and 
the result will surely be that the 
tide will, after a little, begin to 
set this way. The Nation has 
become so tremendous, that there 
are now some thousands of peo- 
ple who annually go to seek 
places of recreation, both from 
the winter's cold and summer's 
heat. Of the class we shall catch 



BUILD A HOME. 



pnEN of 

aIz thatt 



)f wealth are learning 
3 the real pleasure of life 
is not in money getting, but 
that it is the enjoyment of the 
things that money can provide. 
All perfect homes are the joy of 
those who make them, be they 
grand or humble. If a man possess 
wealth, he is foolish if he does not 
build himself a home where he can" 




lose their energy there. Men 
Avho went there years ago, are 
now, while perfectly healthy, 
content to let the world wag. 
The climate has given them a 
dry rot, and they simply "dream 
the hours away." The air here 
is a perpetual tonic, and the rule 
is that men continue to work to 
the end, and die with the hai-ness 
on. As the hundreds and thou- 
sands of people who [oscillate 



KISIDENCE OF F. }. KDSKL. 

more and more, until before very 
long there will be an exodus this 
way. What are we doing to 
make the place attractive for 
their coming? 



The Utah Canning Factory of 
this city will be enlarged next 
season so that it will require most 
all of the fruit raised in this 
vicinity to supply the establish- 
ment. 



with his family enjoy the choic- 
est blessings of life. If he is able 
it is not necessary that his home 
should be confined to any partic- 
ular place of abode but he can 
have two or more residences and 
thus pass the different seasons in 
different localities. If he loves 
society and wishes to have his 
family enjoy every social advan- 
tage possible, it is natural and 
proper that he should have a res- 



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OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST : 



idence in some flourishing city, 
where he can enjoy all the pleas- 
ures of the social worhl during 
the winter months. When the 
summer comes it is fashion to 
rush to a summer resort where it 
is over crowded and any thing but 
pleasant and agreeable. How 
much better it is to have a sum- 
mer residence in some healthy 
locality where health, rest and 
pleasure go together. Such a 



to go to some summer hotel and 
crowd into small, inconvenient 
rooms. 

There is no place in the United 
States better adapted to the 
building of such homes than in 
the immediate vicinity of this 
city. Land is cheap, fruit and 
vegetables, such as can be pro- 
duced no where else, grow in 
abundance, the air is pure and 
bracing, the scenery grand and 



STONE AND MARBLE. 







RKSIDENCE OK HON. I„ W. SHl.UTl.l l-'l-'. 



residence will soon l)ecoine as 
much a home to the family as 
the old homestead where the lit- 
tle ones were born and raised, 
and it will alford the owner more 
real pleasure, and that at less ex- 
pense, than he co ild possibly 
enjoy at any public summer 
resort. 

People who can aiSord it are 
fast learning that it is much 
more pleasant to spend the sum- 
mer months at their own home 
in some good locality than it is 



imposing, the climate equal to 
and far superior to that of most 
all other localities — in fact, we 
have every thing that goes to 
make life enjoyable. 

The sea bathing in Great Salt 
Lake, mentioned in another ar- 
ticle, is far superior to any sea 
bathing in the world. 

People who have a desire to 
build a pleasant home in such a 
locality, will find, upon investi- 
gation, that nothing in the above 
is over drawn. 



7JTAH can supply the world 
K^ with fine building stone, so 
great are its quarries. The 
Denver and Rio Grande Western 
is filling a contract for 500 car 
loads of red sandstone to be de- 
livered at Kansas City, and for 
ID' 10 car loads more at Denver. 
This stone is taken from a quar- 
ry near the road in Spanish Fork 
Canon, where it is easily ex- 
tracted and loaded. This stone 
possesses the important quali- 
ties of being easily worked in- 
to any form desired, and of 
having a fine texture and 
pleading shades of color. The 
front of the Cullcn Hotel build- 
ing in Salt Lake cit}% a five- 
story structure, is of this stone. 
Besides the contracts men- 
tioned, the railway company 
have home and outside demand 
for the stone, and they are 
sending out from three to six 
car loads per day. Graj^ sand- 
stone of good quality is quar- 
ried in the same vicinity, and 
near there is also an immense 
mass of mottled or serpentine 
marble, which polishes nicely, 
and is so variegated and beau- 
tiful, that it is destined to 
come into demand for various 
classes of ornamental work. 
There ai-e so many varieties 
of marble in Utah that works 
ought to be started in this city 
to convert marble into slabs and 
blocks, and also into finished 
work. With such a factory here 
it would be possible to erect mar- 
ble houses almost as cheaply as 
brick. This class of manufac- 
ture offers good inducements for 
the investment of capital either 
in this city or at some of the va- 
rious quarries. H in this city, 
many varieties of mai'ble and 



ITS MANUFACTURING AND BUSINESS ADVANTAGES. 



23 



sandstones could be collected 
here, and thus would give such 
a factory a varied stock for the 
market, vphich, besides supplying 
the home market, would find de- 
mands both East and West. 
Granite should be included in 
such stone works. There are 



and possibly more, in the canon 
where natural dams exist. The 
cost of putting in dams at these 
places compared with the ex- 
penditure necessary to secure a 
head on some streams would be 
insignificant. At all of these 
places the entire river could be 




RESIDENXE OF HON. D. H. PEERY. 



ous farmer to fructify his fields, 
orchards and gardens. "Yes," 
continued the gentleman, ''Og- 
den River is a wonderful stream, 
and the amount of power it can 
be made to furnish is beyond cal- 
culation." 

The road from Ogden to Hunts- 
ville is built through the canon 
through which Ogden River 
passes. The distance through the 
caiion is seven miles. The dis- 
tance from Ogden to Huntsville 
is twelve miles. Huntsville is 
600 feet higher than Ogden is. It 
is estimated by experts that the 
fall of the river between the 
head of the canon and its mouth, 
is from 450 to 500 feet. This 
gives to the river a very swift 
current and an abundance of mo- 
tive power, which,as stated above, 
can easily be utilized. At the 
lower end of the canon is the 
greatest fall. Here in places it 
averages 250 feet to the mile, and 



many quarries of granite suitable 
for monuments and other pur- 
poses, while the slate deposits in 
the islands in the great lake 
ought to be brought into use 
through being sawn into the 
many articles for which it is ap- 
plicable. 



WATER POWER. 



PROMINENT gentleman of 
this city who has traveled 
considerably in the United 
States, says Ogden River affords 
better facilities for utilizing its 
force than any stream he has ever 
seen. It is possible to utilize the 
whole of the water in a great many 
places and return it into the ri^-er. 
Not a drop of water need be waited 
anywhere; consequently irrigat- 
ing interests need not suffer. 
There are three or four points. 




RESIDENCE OF MAJOR V. M. C. SILVA. 



turned through to advantage. 
Every drop could be made to do 
work at each jpoint and then 
could continue its course on to 
the broad acres of the industri- 



there is always sufficient water 
to furnish any quantity of power. 
A grade of 160 feet to a mile, 
which it will be seen is far below 
what actually exists in some 



24 



OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST : 



places, will give 20 feet fall in 
eveiy 40 rods. The number of 
l^laces where such a fall could 
easily be obtained is large, hence 
it is hardly possible to estimate 
the quantity of i)ower the river 



been found in flowing wells and 
comes up with the water. With 
the proper arrangements for col- 
lecting it in a gasometer, it has 
been found that the supply is 
constant and regular. Several 




PF.ERV & MACK'S MILL. 



really would furnish, since the 
water could be used over and 
over again at different points 
from the head to the mouth of 
the canon. A fall of twenty feet 
in one-eighth of a mile is more 
than sufficient to run any of t he 
turbine wheels now in use, and 
would develop an unlimited 
quantity of yiower.—Oj^j^ii //era/,/. 



NATURAL GAS. 



CZ*^* many natural gas wells have 
($J lieen struck in this city dur- 
ing the past year and a half 
while boring for flowing wells, 
that the prevailing opinion is that 
by going deep enough gas in large 
quantities can be obtained. The 
gas that has been struck so far has 



parties have utilized this gas for 
lighting and heating purposes, 
and it gives good satisfaction. A 
number of gentlemen have form- 
ed a comi)any for the purpose of 
boring for gas in this city, 
and they have asked the City 
Council to give them every en- 
couragement possible. Owing to 
a recent act of Congress which 
prevents Territorial Legislatures 
or any legislative body in a Ter- 
ritorj' from granting exclusive 
rights for any purpose, the Coun- 
cil is not able to grant that por- 
tion of the request, but what it 
has the power to do will be done. 
It is the intention to bore down 
at least 2000 feet with a large 
drill, and the projectors confi- 
dently expect to strike gas in 



large quantities. A lot of the 
latest improved machinery is to 
be ordered from the East, and 
work is to be commenced just as 
soon as possible. 



SOUND SENSE. 



ZTlIE following report, prepared 
^^ by the Chamber of Commerce 
Committee on Agriculture, 
states so many facts in just the 
right way. that it is given a place 
in this work. It is not the inten- 
tion that the people East and 
West, who read this book should 
be given to understand that every 
thing here is so near perfec- 
tion that there is no room for im- 
provement. The advice given to 
our farmers may .serve to give 
some one who is in soardi of a 




BROWNINC BROS'. ARMORV. 

desirable location to go into the 
business of farming, some de- 
sirable information in regard to 
this part of the country. For it is 
to be supposed that prospective 



ITS MANUFACTURING AND BUSINESS ADVANTAGES. 



settlers desire to know something 
of the disadvantages as well as 
the advantages possessed by a 
particnlar locality. 

The Ogden Chamber of Com- 
merce, thi'ough its Committee on 
Agriculture, recommends that the 
following suggestions be care- 
fully studied by all interested: 

Where now one car of potatoes 




H. L. GRIFFIN. WHOLESALE PROnUCE. 

is raised there should be fifty or 
a hundred, for in seasons when 
there is a great demand, we can 
obtain contracts for large quan- 
tities easier and at better figures 
than for small quantities; and 
again, much can be gained in the 
matter of freight rates where we 
can guarantee to ship a great 
number of cars in a season. The 
manner of putting up our pota- 
toes for market is a subject of 
great importance. Only one kind 
should be planted in the same 
hill, row or patch, and care 
should be used in selecting the 
best varieties, such as Goodrich, 
Peerless, Early Rose, etc. Then 
when sacking for market, be sure 
and put up large, well assorted 
goods, and only one kind in a 
sack. Have sacks well-filled, so 



that the packages will pres nt a 
neat appearance. Clean sacks 
should be used. Any article will 
sell to a much better advantage 
in an attractive package than in 
a slovenly one. 

Some may say that if we raise 
so many potatoes, and there hap- 
pens to be a light demand, they 
will be a dead loss to them; but 
we say not necessari- 
ly so, for in that case 
they can be used for 
feed. This will result 
in increasing our live 
stock and furnishing 
material for such es- 
tablishments as pack- 
ing houses. We do 
not px'oduce enough 
to bate our markets. 
Dealers who are 
acquainted with the 
trade of the past few 
years will tell you 
that the trade of Utah 
consumes many car- 
loads of (late winter) 
cabbage, imported 
from California every season. 
The same is true of onions. We 
know of markets all through the 
East where many carloads of 
bot'i these articles could he 
placed at highly remunerative 
figures if we had them in the 
country. We say to the farmers, 
"Wake Up," and make yourselves 
independent, if not rich. You 
have the country, the climate and 
the soil, and can get the markets. 
For two reasons it will pay 
growers to put out numerous 
orchards of peaches, plums, pears, 
apples, cherries and so fourth. In 
the first place, this is one of the 
best producing sections of the 
United States for them, and sec- 
ondly, we have the best markets. 
The flavor and size of our fruits, 
when they are properly selected 



and cared for, are equal, if not 
superior to any grown in Califor- 
nia. They bring higher prices in 
the Eastern markets than the lat- 
ter, owing to the fact that we can 
get them there three to four days 
fresher. Being one thousand 
miles nearer, we ha.ve very much 
the advantage over them in al- 
most the entire market. They 
supply Denver, Omaha, Chicago, 
St. Louis,and intermediate points; 
also to some extent,New Orlean.s, 
Philadelphia and New York. The 
fruits are transported to these 
points in special fast fruit trains 
at a very low rate. 

What we raise has all to be 
shipped out by express, as there 
is not enough at any time to load 
a car. We have to confine our 
market for these kinds of fruits 
to small towns in our vicinity, 
and when they are supplied, ship 




K. J. KKLSEL S: CO. 

to Denver and other small points, 
paying $3.00 per hundred, while 
California fruits are carried there 
for $1.10, a difference of nearly 
forty cents per twenty pound 
box, or two cents a pound. 
Several fruit houses in each of 



II 



2G 



OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST : 



the large centers above named, 
receive throe to four cars of fruit 
per week during the season. 
Just as soon as we have care- 
fully selected fruit enough to 



the encoui'agement for putting 
out large quantities of thoni, how- 
ever, as for puttingoutthe larger 
fruit, as they have to be shipped 
by express to thinly settled dis- 




\V.\1. 1)KI\KK ,<: SONS IJRUc; STORK. 



load by the car, we can have all 
that trade that wo want and re- 
ceive better figures for it than we 
do now. 

We heartily recommend you to 
give this matter immediate and 
serious attention. We believe 
there is more money to Ite made 
in growing fruits here than in 
any other part of the United 
States. 

Strawberries,raspberries, black- 
berries, etc., do well here, and 
the choicest of them, well packed, 
find ready market. There is not 



tricts. There aro now about as 
many black and raspberry vines 
in bearing as our nuirket de- 
mands, unless we can make it 
profitable to dry them in large 
quantities. We believe it would 
pay you to investigate this mat- 
ter, as dealers here annually im- 
port many hundreds of [)ouuds at 
from ten to twenty cents. 

Two much care cannot be 
taken in packing those fruits. 
How many dealers can testify as 
to the manner in which our ber- 
ries are often put up! After pur- 



chase, they frequently find what 
appears to be a marketable lot, 
upon removing the top layer, 
composed chiefly of small, sour, 
unripe fruit. Again, a shipper 
sends out to a distant market a 
lot of fruit which has been pur- 
chased as first-class. After a 
time his customer returns a state- 
ment tluit the berries were so 
poor tliat they could n(jt be dis- 
posed of at any pi'ice, and states 
that if nothing better can be had 
not to send any more. 

Whether berries, ])eaches or 
other fruits, only the same rii)e- 
noss should l)e put togotiuM' in a 
package. Ripe and hard fruit 
will not carry well together. The 
hard mashes into the ripe. 

From the best information we 
can get, our local nurseries can 
give you l)ottor trees and shrubs 
for this altitude than foreign es- 
tablishments. We therefore ad- 




SIDNEY STEVENS' BUSINESS BLO.K. 

vise parties to consult them be- 
fore planting, as they hnve made 
that subject a study. 

In the matter of grain, we 
would impress u[)on farmers the 
necessity of getting the best va- 
riety of seed, and freeing it from 



ITS MANUFACTURING AND BUSINESS ADVANTAGES. 



27 



all foreign seeds. Plant in rich 
soil. Do not plant wheat too 
many times on the same patch of 
land. You will find it very ben- 
eficial to change seed wheat 
every two j^ears at least, and, in 
doing so, do not get your next 
door neighbor's, but go off a few 
miles for it. When you plant in 
lower valleys, try and get seed 
raised m the uplands. You will 
find it a great improvement in 
your next year's crop. In our 
opinion much of our smutty 
wheat is caused from planting on 
poor land, and the same seed year 
after year. There is no reason 
why our wheat for its flour- 
making properties may not be- 
come famous all over the United 
States, and reach the Atlantic 
and the Pacific. We have as good 
mills as Minneapolis, and no lo- 
cality has better water power. 
The demand for our grain is 




markets at home. It would then 
pay to erect elevators, which 
would greatly reduce the cost of 
handling. In relation to barley, 
we have to say that orders can 
be obtained much easier for fifty 
or a hundred car lots thn n for five 
cars, and at much better figures. 
There is seldom a season when 
we have oats sufiioient to meet 
our demands. Stringent meas- 
ures should be taken to destroy 



C. L. FEKKLES' IlRlUi SIOKE. 

far in excess of the supply. If 
we would raise a thousand bush- 
els to where we now raise one 
hundred we could command trade 
with the world, because we could 
load ships with flour and wheat, 
and furnish large consuming 



five to butter, we would recom- 
mend that every farmer have a 
clean, cool, well-aired place for 
milk, and churn while the cream 
is sweet. Liverpool salt should 
be used, and the butter well 
worked, wrapped in clean but- 
ter cloth and marketed while 
fresh. When put up for shipping 
every roll should be of the same 
size and color, and the box clean. 
We cannot too strongly urge 




UTAH PRODUCE AND COMMISSION CO'S BOILOIXG. 



wild oats, and more care used 
when they are threshed to keep 
them clean. 

Our poultry, butter and egg 
business can be made much more 
remunerative than it is now by 
observing proper precautions. 
Merchants and shippers of this 
city and Territory have met with 
heavy losses on account of eggs 
being brought in stale and not 
properly assorted. Much care 
should be taken to have them 
clean when marketed, and not 
more than eight days old. Rela- 



the necessity of carefully select- 
ing all goods put up for shipping. 
It is a well-known fact that the 
prices received more than repay 
the extra trouble for selecting. 
We give the above remarks with 
the hope they will be of use to 
you, and thus help to build up 
the country. We have been asked 
to write these recommendations 
by numbers of our business men 
who are daily receiving letters 
from markets in all directions, 
and are thus in a position to 
know what is needed. 



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OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST 



MANUFACTURES. 



/^HE following interesting ex- 
\2) tracts are from a very full 
and complete report made to 
the Ogden Chamber of Commerce 
by the committee on manufacture. 
After calling attention to the 
fact that it was a hard matter to 
collect reliable facts, the report 
says: 

2nd. We recommend that the 
Chamber of Commerce <'onsider 



plumper, and weigh n)ore than 
they do after being shipped alive 
1500 miles or more and slaugh- 
tered at other points. We have 
all the facilities, and more than 
at other points, hence this busi- 
ness can be carried on here better 
than at any other point, this 
being the terminus of five 
roads. That would furnish 
good market on the line of 
road for hotels, etc., in 
to our local market 



rail- 
us a 
rail- 



addition 
and the 




the advisability of forming a com- 
pany for slaughtering and refrig- 
erating cattle, sheep* and hogs. 
There is, tributary to Ogden, a 
large area of country that fur- 
nishes 100,000 head of beef and 
as many mutton, annually, which 
are shipped alive, at present, to 
the East and West. A car will 
hold 17 head of live stock, and 
45 head dressed. The animals 
are worth more by 1 or 2 cents a 
pound, killed in Ogden; are 



markets of the East and AVest. 
In connection could be run a 
canning, potting and curing es- 
tablishment for the canning and 
potting of beef, and for the cur- 
ing of beef, pork, hams, etc. 

Such an organization would 
bring to Ogden a vast amount of 
trade, as the people who ship 
their cattle here would naturally 
bank trade, and stop over with 
us, opening a field of enterprise 
to our merchants. 



The killing of .«;tock in Ogden 
would leave the hides and offal 
here, which would be an impetus 
to manufactures. We have 
l)lenty of salt to cure the hides, 
and it would furnish employment 
to tan and manufacture the 
leather into boots, shoes and 
harness. The grease could be 
made into soap, the hoofs into 
glue. The farmers would raise 
more hogs and take their pay in 
cui'ed meat and lard, in fact such 
an establishment once started 
would find employment for more 
than 100 men in the manufacture 
of goods which at i)resent we 
import, while we give away the 
offal and only receive payment 
for the bare meat. 

ii^ ¥ ^ JjJ Jp 

5th — We draw your attention 
to the Salt Lake interests. Sea 
water evaporating leaves 4 per 
cent, impure. English rock salt 
as mined is H per cent, impure. 
We suggest the appointment of 
a committee especially to inquire 
into the method of purifying 
salt, for the purpose of using the 
salt manufactured in Utah for 
[lickling and curing meat.s, and 
foi' exportation in competi- 
tion with Liverpool salt for pre- 
serving butter and for use as 
table salt; and to ascertain 
whether it is possible to purify, 
or remove all imiiurities from 
rtah salt, as it takes perfectly 
pure salt for the preservation and 
curing of meats and buttei'. 

(Jth— Li the organization of 
companies to pursue the business 
of slaughtering cattle, sheep and 
hogs, the famers should co-oper- 
ate and sustain, as they could 
convert the grain that they sell 
at 1 cent per lb., and the potatoes 
that they sell at A cent per lb., 
into meat that will not cost them 
one tenth of the freight to send 



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ITS MANUFACTURING AND BUSINESS ADVANTAGES. 



29 



to market, besides suppling the 
home consumption. It will help 
them to keep their farms from 
being worn out bj' supplying 
them with fertilizers. The meat 
cured will net from 10 to 25 cents 
per lb., while the freight cannot 



over-double the price of the raw 
product. 

9th — In Wyoming, Utah, Idaho 
and Montana 100 cars of glass are 
used annually, we suggest a 
special committee to inquire 







yJf^S'.e.^viS^ 



TROUT POOL, OGDEN CANON. 



whether window glass can or 
cannot be manufactured in Og- 
den. All the material is found 
in Utah and there is a factory 
for making glassware and bottles 
in successful operation in Salt 
Lake City. 

10th — We invite your consider- 
ation to the fact that out of the 
7,000,000 pounds of wool raised 
in Utah, 6,000,000 pounds are ex- 
ported, and we import our woolen 
goods, while it has been demon- 
strated by the woolen mills in 
Provo that the manufacture of 
woolens can be made a success 
in this Territory. 

11th — In conclusion, we would 
state that Ogden possesses the 
key, and holds the situation as 
the commercial and manufactur- 
ing center for Utah, Idaho, parts 
of Wyoming and Nevada. We 
have enough of power running 
to waste to manufacture all the 
goods needed in those States and 
Territories; we are the center of 
this whole commercial region, and 
we have the terminus of the five 
largest railroads here; and any 
industry that we may go into or 
any goods that we can manufac- 
ture, we are in the center of the 
market, and can ship to its des- 
tination without re-shipment. 
We are not depending on favors 
from one or two roads to make 
us, for we have them all, and if 
one does not the other will. 

But let Ogden once start one or 
two of the manufacturing indus- 
tries we have enumerated and 
the railroads will be begging for 
the freights and favors of the 
merchants and manufacturers of 
Ogden, with more clamor than 
Ogden has ever exhibited for the 
depots. When two or three of 
these industries are operated, 
Ogden will not need to ask for a 
depot; it will be put here too quick. 



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OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST : 



SYRACUSE. 



islands which it contains, large Forty-six teachers were employed 



Q YRACUSE is the name of the 
(g^ new Imthing resort on the 
northeastern shore of CJreat 
Salt Lake at the terminus of the 
Ogden and Syracuse railroad. The 
new resort was opened to the pub- 
lic on the 4th of July last, since 
which time it has been growing 
in popularity every day. With 
the exception of Garfield Beach, 
it has the best beach of any re- 
sort on the Lake and it is only a 
question when it will be one of 
the best summer resorts to be 
found in the western country. 
The land near Syracuse is very 
fertile and there is an abundance 
of fresh water for irrigating pur- 
poses. In this particular it is 
ahead of any of the other resorts 
because it is possible to have one 
of the finest parks in the United 
States here on this fertile land. 
The management is in enterpris- 
ing hands and it is the intention 
that no expense shall he spared to 
make this one of the greatest 
health and pleasure resorts in the 
country. Next season the through 
trains from the East on the Union 
Pacific will 1)0 run down to the 
T^ake from this city so as to give 
through passengers a chance to 
take a bath in the great inland 
sea before continuing their jour- 
ney West. Every convenience 
that it has been possible to pro- 
vide in the short time since it was 
first decided to ])uild the resort, 
has been provided and now large 
numbers of our citizens run down 
to the Lake almost every daj' 
during the week and enjoy a bath 
in the briny deep. 

There is no sea bathing in the 
world to ecpial the f treat Salt 
Lake, and in less than five years 
dozens of resorts will be estab- 
lished along its shores and on the 



substantial steamers will make 
regular trips from one resort to 
another for the accommodation 
of the thousand tourists who will 
riock to Utah during the summer 
months. Elegant summer resi- 
dences will be built, and the 
broken in health and the over- 
worked wnll find health and 
rest, while breathing the pure air 
of the mountains, and bathing in 
the Lake. When all this comes 
to pass, Syracuse will be one of 
the principal resorts, noted far 
and near for being the greatest 
health and pleasure resort in the 
country. 

DISTRICT SCHOOLS. 



in the thirty-four schools of 
Weber County, at an average 
salary to males of $52.45, and to 
fenniles, §80.70. To pay them, 
the districts expended $15,772.65, 
an increase over last year of 
S1,52S.45: of this amount the sum 
of $'.M')05.40 was paid to males, and 
§<),1<)7.1() to females. The cur- 
rent expenses of running the 
schools, exclusive of teachers' 
sal ary, was $1,611.14 in 1 887, as 
against $1,621.22 in 1S86. 

The schools were in session on 
an average, three terms and one- 
fourth, or 154 days, eight districts 
having schools in session the 
whole year; three for three terms 
and one-half: five for, three terms: 
two for two terms: and two for 



HE District schools-are sup — one term each. 



'*c:v ported Ijy a yearly Territorial 
appn^jriation, by local tax- 
ation and by tuition. 

The Territorial approi)riation 
is derived from a general Terri- 
torial tax. The school law pro- 
vides that a local tax may be 
levied in any district, notexceed- 
2 per cent, per annum. A tax of 
.jf per cent may be levied by the 
trustees without consulting the 
taxpayei's; any amount above 
that mu.st be levied by consent of 
the tax payers, at a meeting 
called for that i)urpose. Free 
schools may thus be had in any 
district where the tax-payers are 
disposed to levy a tax sufficiently 
large for that purpose. Several 
districts in Weber County have, 
therefore, free schools. 

There are twenty districts in 
the count}^ each directed by a 
board of three trustees. 

The total value of school prop- 
erty, according to the report of 
the sui)erintendent for 1S87, was 
$77,36)3.30, which is $4,674.65 in 
excess of the value in 1SS6. 



There was a total school popu- 
lation of 4,320, out of which 
number 2,267 are boys, and 2,062 
girls. Out of number 824 are 
children of non-Mormon parenis. 
and 3,505 children of Mormon 
parents. 

The enrollment was 3.290, or 
seventy-five per cent., but the av- 
erage daily attendance was 1,684, 
oi- thirty-nine per cent., to which 
may l)e added seventy-seven 
under school age, and 130 over 
eighteen years, who were enrolled. 
The actual cost, therefore, for 
teachers' salaries for each child 
actually attending was $0.36, and 
for all expenses, $14.32. 

The total revenue was $29,- 
321.59. The amount received 
from district taxes was $ 10, 1 20.41 ; 
from Territorial appropriation, 
$8,054.00: from tuition, $5,643.01; 
and the remainder from other 
sources. The total sum of $54,- 
123.09 was exjiended for school 
pui-poses during the ye'ar. 

Teachers associatir,nsand insti- 
tutes are held, WQfjkly, monthly, 



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31 



and yearly, respectively. The 
latest and best methods of teach- 
ing are employed by the teachers. 
Music is receiving due attention 
in many of the schools. The 
buildings, and furnishings of the 
Weber County schools compare 
favorably with any in the Terri- 
tory. 

The following table, taken 
from the annual report of Super- 
tendent Edward H. Anderson, 
gives a fair idea of the growth 
of the public schools in Weber 
County. 

1867. 1877 1887. 

Value of School Property $31.9 )0.00 $77,363.30 

Total paid to Teachers... $5,322.8) $ C,2G2 Oi $15,772 65 

Local Taxes Raised $1,075.70 $ 2.014 65 $10,129.41 

School Population 1,422 2,876 4 477 

Total ChlldrenenroUed.. 955 1,794 3.299 

No. of Schools 18 21 34 

THE SLAUGHTERING 
BUSINESS. 

C(^OME one who has plenty of 
(^ money with which he wishes 
to make more can do so by 
building a big .slaughtering house 
in this city and creating a 
market here for cattle and sheep. 
It is only a question of time 
when there will have to be a mar- 
ket established some where in 
this inter-mountain region for 
the cattle and sheep that roam 
over the hills and valleys. It is 
much easier and less expen.sive 
to send beef to eastern and west- 
ern markets in refrigerator cars 
than it is to ship the live cattle 
in stock cars such a great dis- 
tance. Thousands of tons of ice 
can be put up in this city every 
winter if necessary, and with 
plenty of ice and the right kind 
of cars the business is an assured 
success from the start, a,.s the cat- 
tle could he slaughtered at any 
time and the dressed beef could 
be packed in the cars and sent 
direct to Chicago or San Fran- 
cisco, where it would arrive as 



fresh as the day it was placed on 
board. Ogden is just the place to 
locate such an establishment, be- 
cause of its unexcelled railroad 
facilities. Any one who desires 
to start such a business would 
undoubtedly receive assistance 
from the U. P. and C. P. in some 
form or other. For instance the 
U. P. would in all probability 
agree to haul all the ice necessary 
to be used from Evanston free of 
charge. Ice can as a general 
thing be procured in this city, but 
as it can always be had at Evan- 
ston, and as the quality is the 
very best, it might be well to ar- 
range to get all the ice from that 
point. The railroads would also 
arrange to keep ice along the 
road to replenish the cars if nec- 
essary. The roads could well 
afford to encourage such an enter- 
prise in every way possible, be- 
cause it would furnish them with 
a great deal of business. The 
cattle would have to be shipped 
into this market from the sur- 
rounding country and the dressed 
meat would be seat out. 

There can be no question about 
the success of such an enterprise, 
because good meat is always in 
demand in any eastern or western 
market. And all that is neces- 
sary is to arrange for getting it 
there, and there will be no trouble 
about sales or profits; and then 
again there is always plenty of 
feed in this vicinity, so that cat- 
tle sent in here from a distance 
can l)e fed for a week or so if it 
is necessary to place them in good 
condition for killing. 

The hides and tallow will pay 
all the expense of running such 
an establishment, and the horiis 
and feet can be utilized for dif- 
ferent purposes, so that taking all 
together there is good reason to 
believe that there is a chance to 



make plenty of money after the 
business is once started. 

The Chamber of Commerce 
will assist any one who desires to 
give it a trial in securing a loca- 
tion for the necessary yards and 
buildings. 



AGRICULTURE. 



pNEOPLE do not farm in Utah 
Q.--^ like they do in other parts 

* of the United States. As a 
general thing the farms are small 
but owing to the almost unequaled 
productiveness of the soil a farm 
of a few acres will produce as 
much as a very large farm in 
Iowa, Illinois or any other of the 
great agricultural States. 

The following interesting facts 
are gathered from a circular pre- 
pared by the Denver & Rio 
Grande Railway. They are per- 
fectly reliable. 

Fair Utah wheat ranks with the 
best No. 2 Red, which is the high- 
est grade appearing in most of the 
Eastern markets. Our choicest 
qualities, raised under the most 
favorable conditions, are a unique 
product with scarcely an equal in 
America. A number of points in 
Colorado, especially Denver, are 
already Iniyers of our wheat this 
year, while some shipments have 
been made to Kansas Cit5^ En- 
quires are also being made from 
California. Utah wheat has a 
brighter, larger kernel than that 
of the East, and though no hand- 
somer than that of California, it 
is firmer and its nutriment more 
concentrated. 

We have known parties who 
are keeping up work horses, to 
pay 25 to 30 per cent, more for 
Utah oats of ordinary quality than 
for a fair grade of Eastern. This 
was a couple of years ago when 
cut rates of freight permitted the 



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OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST 



bringing in of Eastern oats. 
Nothing more conclusive can be 
said of tlie real value of our oats 
than this, which after all, only 
represents current opinion among 
those who have tried both. 
Utah oats, therefore, command a 
stiff price and parties looking 
here for a supplj^ should under- 
stand that in return for the com- 
paratively high figure asked, the 
real feeding powei' of our grain 
is proportionately high. Utah 
oats have ranged in price during 
recent years from 1^ to 1| cents 
per pound on cars. 

In 18S.J our Ijrewing barley was 
exported in great quantities to 
St. Louis, Milwaukee. California 
and other points, where it invar- 
ibly graded as fully up to the 
best Canadian brewing. Utah 
barley beer is advertised all over 
the Union, and signifies the 
highest attainable degree of 
merit. It is the use of this bar- 
ley which gives Utah beer so 
high a standard. Indeed our 
white clul) brewing barley will 
hold its own anywhere as a 
strictly fancy product. Besides 
this grade Utah has for sale about 
a million pounds of mixed feed 
barley. 

There is a few cars of rye an- 
nually offered here at a figure 
usually ranging over one cent 
per pound. The quality is superb 
and the yield fair. 

Utah does not pose as a corn 
country, and rarely has any for 
export. The hot sultry nights 
which corn requires are not 
characteristic of our climate. 
East of the Wasatch Mountains, 
however, along the line of the 
Denver & Rio Grande Western, 
(specially at (ireen River, it is 
likely that corn growing will 
prove a considerable industry. 

A special providence seems to 



have I'eserved this Territory for 
the cultivation of lucerne, often 
called alfalfa, which the farming 
people of Utah have learned to 
look ui)on as one of the greatest 
blessings tliat has yet been 
vouchsafed them. The best crops 
come from lands thatcannot well 
be plowed because of their rough 
character. Excellent results 
have been had by merely clear- 
ing off the brush and casting the 
seed over such ground. It takes 
longer to get a good start and 
irrigation is more difficult than 
if the ground were stirred up 
but it thrives lietter in the end. 
Lucern will do well even on 
ground that is too steep for a 
mowing machine, if only suffi- 
cient water can be got on it to 
give it a start. Its avei'age 
growth is about three feet though 
we have known it to reach over 
six feet when left for seed. A 
serious drought may spoil the crop 
for the time being, but the follow- 
ing 3'ear it will come up as good 
as ever. 

Utah is, par excellence the 
country for lucern seed and from 
300 to 400 tons are exported an- 
nually at prices varying from 
seven to eleven cents per pound. 

We raise some red and white 
clover seed, liut hav(> little left 
beyond our own needs for export. 

The Utah potato has a repu- 
tation for excellence all over 
America and even in Great Brit- 
ain. Other climes have trie<l in 
vain to match our product, but 
the attempt seems futile. For 
many years great quantities have 
been exported from this Terri- 
tory, and it looks as if we shall 
continue to do so for all time to 
come. We have seen a lot of six- 
teen bushels that went through- 
out twelve potatoes to the bushel. 
The king of the Eai-ly, Peerless 



and Compton's Surprise yield in 
favored localities about 400 bush- 
els to the acre. With high cul- 
tivation we have heard of 1,000 
bushels being raised to the 
acre. Utah ahso has a fine rep- 
utation for carrots, which often 
yield of good quality as much as 
1,200 bushels to the acre; also for 
onions, turnips, parsnips, radishes, 
etc. Beets thrive astonishingly 
well, and far-seeing men tell that 
one day, the large tracts of low 
lying, 1)ut now un watered lands 
on the western side of this val- 
ley and elsewhere, will be under 
cultivation to the sugar beet for 
the manufacture of sugar. 

There is no reason why the 
cultivation of peanuts should not 
take its place as one of our fore- 
most root products. It has been 
clearly demonstrated that our 
climate and soil are especially 
favorable to their growth, and 
every attempt that has been 
made which was only on an ex- 
perimental scale, has borne out 
this idea. 

Of green stuffs we annually ex- 
port large (piantities of cabbage, 
caulifiower and celery, the latter 
growing exceptionally fine. 

South of Utah Lake, and in 
various other localities, are 
grounds suitable for the growth 
of flax, which is native to our 
soil, and would pay well for cul- 
tivation. 

Hops are also native to Utah, 
its trailing vines literally over- 
running every other kind of fo- 
liage in many of our canons. The 
picking of wild hops has yielded 
considerable of pin money to the 
country people, and Nature could 
not tell in plainer words that 
this is pre-eminently a region fa- 
vorable to their cultivation. 

The same causes which give ex- 
cellence to the grain and vege- 



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33 



tables of Utah also stamp her or- 
chard products with a high caste. 
Fresh fruits are exported in con- 
siderable quantities, and wher- 
ever sent take the highest place 
and command the readiest sale. 
In general terms, the superior 
characteristics are firmness, 
beauty, and above all, fine flavor. 
Utah peaches are shipped, 
wrapped and unwrapped, in 
boxes about twenty pounds each, 
and find a ready market in Colo- 
rado and Idaho. Our peach trees 
thrive best on light loam and 
gravely soil. 

The apple is now generally ac- 
knowledged to be more free from 
worms (codling moth) than for 
some years previous, and thou- 
sands of boxes have been shipped. 
East and North by parties in Og- 
den. Salt Lake, Provo, Spring- 
ville and other places. It is prob- 
able that each succeeding year 
will see our apples freer from 
worms and that in a few years 
they will have disappeared alto- 
gether. By papering the apples 
and shipping in refrigerator cars 
they may safely be transported 
long distances late in the fall. 
Green apples are a staple product 
of the Territory, and notwith- 
standing the heavy shipments 
made, the demand last season 
was not equal to the supply. 

There are many fine plums 
raised in Utah; the growth of 
plums last season fell much short 
of our usual quantity, and we 
were far from supplying the de- 
mand. 

There is a sure demand for 
more Utah pears than have yet 
been produced. There is a lack 
chiefly of early varieties of which 
we have few beside the Bar-tlett. 
Growers have paid over much at- 
tention to winter pears, which 
ripen too late to secure favor- 



able sale. They now realize the 
fact, and it is likely that future 
years will find a better supply of 
earlier kinds. The Utah pear is 
an extremely rich fruit. 

In most seasons, Utah has a 
good crop of apricots for export, 
and cherries in limited supply, 
while grapes are in good quantity 
but at points favorable for ship- 
ping are not as handsome as those 
from California. In Southern 
Utah they raise beautiful grapes 
of fine rich flavor, the average 
yeild per acre being 6,260 pounds, 
according to the latest data. 
Strawberries and raspberries are 
both native to Utah, as is the red 
and black currant. Under culti- 
vation the yield is very large and 
of surpassing quality. 

Such is the wide reputation 
which'Utah enjoys for the excel- 
lence of her dried fruits that they 
command a fancy price through- 
out the entire United States. In 
competition with the best Ten- 
nessee they bring in Chicago and 
other cities, from two to three 
times the price. The cause of 
course, is primarily the excellent 
qualitj' of our fruits v>'ith its rich 
flavor, but we owe to the peculiar- 
ity of our climate the ability to 
sun-dry with such success. A 
third reason is the singular ra- 
pidity with which moisture evap- 
orates in this region, enabling the 
drying process to take place rap- 
idly in the day-time, while the 
absence of dew, prevents the 
back-sets during the night. 
Fruits dried by artificial pi-oces- 
ses lose part of their virtues, and 
it is doubtful whether much of 
it would be done were other cli- 
mates as favorable as our own 
to sun-drying. Thus it is that 
Utah sun-dried fruits occupy a 
place by themselves in the mar- 
ket of America. A fancy article, 



that has never yet been produced 
here in anything like the quanti- 
ty that could be sold, is the Utah 
peeled peach. There is noth- 
ing like it for fine flavor any- 
where. It keeps well and com- 
mands twice or thrice the figure's 
of the unpeeled. The apricots 
dried here invariably find a ready 
market, it being an exceptional 
year when they are not cleared 
out before Christmas. The price 
always ranks high and the fruit 
is a general favorite. Atten- 
tion is now being turned 
to the German prune for 
drying purposes, and these will 
probably be kept separate. The 
time is at hand when these will 
take the place of those imported, 
and in a few years, exports are 
sure to follow. 

Very few dried pears so far 
come to market. A very limited 
supply of nectarines have been 
brought in and quickly sold at a 
high price. This fruit is so fine 
in appearance and so rich in 
pulpy substance that its drying 
should be encouraged. 

A novel product, which first oc- 
casions surprise and that finds 
great favor wherever introduced, 
is the dry ground cherry. This 
fruit is native here, and has not 
yet been cultivated, to bur knowl- 
edge. It grows only too freely 
for the farmers, however, as it 
spreads with great vigor. When 
scalded and dried, the fruit is of 
a beautiful golden color, mak- 
ing excellent pies, sauce and pre- 
serves. 



The ease with which a well can 
be driven and flowing water se- 
cured in the valleys of this Terri- 
tory has given a new impetus to 
farming and made lands availa- 
ble that have heretofore been 
considered beyond cultivation. 



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OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST 



NATURAL CAS GEOLOGY. 



/C. HE following article by J. S. 
^<2) Mcintosh, in the Salt Lake 
I'l-ihune, is on a question of 
consi«leral)le present interest: 

The general geological condi- 
tions upon which the occurrence 
of natural gas seems to depend, 
from a consideration of facts ob- 
tained by a long and practical ex- 
perience in the oil business are: 
(1) The porosity of sandstone 
either in the Triassic or Jurassic 
formation. (2) Tlie extent to 
which the strata above and be- 
low the gas bearing rock are 
cracked. (3) The relative pro- 
pox'tion of water, oil and gas con- 
tained in the gas-bearing rock. 
(4) The pressure under which 
the gas exists before being tapped 
by wells. 

Kind reader, do not misunder- 
stand me. I do not claim to 
know all the conditions of im- 
portance bearing upon the prob- 
lem as to the generation of natu- 
ral gas. But, from a diligent and 
careful observation of twenty-five 
years, have found that sandstone 
of a porous nature produced the 
best gas wells; which is found in 
the oil country of Pennsylvania, 
as well as in the Western coun- 
try. Yet the origin of natural 
gas has an important bearing up- 
on economic geology. It is be- 
lieved we are in possession of 
some data to throw some light 
on this interesting question of 
the cause of natural gas. Yet it 
is inconceivable to permit a com- 
plete explanation. However, I 
deem it necessary that some 
statement should be made in or- 
der to more thoroughly under- 
stand tlie conditions upon which 
its origin seems to depend. It 
would appear to some people that 
natural gas is closely related to 



petroleum, and that their origin 
is due to the same cause — that is 
the decomposition of animal and 
vegetable life. It is generally 
believed that gas is not indigen- 
ous to the rock from which it is 
obtained, but comes from the de- 
composition of life forms which 
wei'e entrapped in underlying 
strata. It is also conceded by 
professional men, that gas is gen- 
erated from carbonic substance. 
This may lie a fact, yet I propose 
to show that natural gas exists in 
different countries (vhere there 
are no carbonic formations. For 
instance: we have an abundance 
of gas in Canada, East Indies and 
in different States in this Union, 
where carbonic formations are 
not known. We have also found 
gas where petroleum is not 
known to exist. That the ab- 
sence of oil or coal in our Trias- 
sic formation east of the oil re- 
gion in Pennsylvania, is ex- 
plained Ify the cracking of the 
rocks. A survey of the outcrop- 
ping rocks and the dry wells, 
show that the Triassic or gas- 
bearing rocks extends far beyond 
the limits of the area of the re- 
gion in which any traces of gas 
have been found. The general 
structural geology of gas regions 
is simple: The rocks lie nearly 
horizontal, dipping slightly to 
the southwest. An appreciation 
of the intensity of the dips may 
be had from the following figures: 
From the city of Bradford, 7'2 
miles, in an air line southeast of 
the city of Erie, the rock dips on 
an average of 14 feet to the mile. 
From the city of Pittsburg, a dis- 
tance of 70 miles, the average dip 
per mile is 20 feet. The maxi- 
mum dip of Bradford oil region 
from surveys of 1S7'.), was <)0 feet 
per mile. I claim the dip of gas- 
bearing rock has an important 



bearing upon tlie occurrence of 
gas. Yet it is not believed that 
gas wells can be located indepen- 
dently on what ha*' been formu- 
lated as the anticlinal theory: 
however, the greatest gas wells 
of Pennsylvania are found on 
those greate.st anticlinal posi- 
tions. Mr. J. F. Carll. assistant 
geologist of the oil regions of 
Pennsylvania, claims (and I ac- 
cede with his views) that gas 
wells should be located on anti- 
clinals, because gas is lighter 
than water or oil. and should 
seek the biggest reservoir jirem- 
ises; a sandstone rock containing 
oil. water or gas or only water 
and gas in such proportions that 
the fluids may stratify themselves 
as freely as they would in an 
open tank under air, the water at 
the lower lever and the gas at the 
higher. It is proved by experi- 
ence of over twenty-five years 
that no profitable oil or gas well 
can be obtained in the upper 
Devonian strata unless a good 
sand rock reservoir is found. 

It is generally expected, and 
justly, that the oil and gas-mak- 
ing material was' deposited before 
and perhaps in some cases with 
the sand rock, not after 
it; that the tendency is 
oil and gas when generated is up- 
wards. Therefore, the two pri- 
mary conditions to be sought are, 
gas-producing materials and sand 
rock reservoirs to hold the pro- 
ducts. It is a well-known fact 
that all oil and gas-bearing rock 
are sedimentary; that they are 
composed of materials derived 
from older rocks, the disinte- 
grated particles of which have 
been sifted, a.ssorteil and depos- 
ited in stratified layers by the 
action of water. 

We do not need to go back to 
Pennsylvania or Canada fgr an 



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35 



explanation on natural gas or oil; 
we can find those old sediment- 
ary and fossilated rocks right in 
Utah and "Wyoming, overlaid by 
sand rock; we have oil and gas in 
this country in abundance, if we 
only had energy enough to sink 
for it. 

We have oil and gas north of 
Rawlins, Wyo.; we have gas in 
Green River, Wyo. 

We have oil and gas in abund- 
ance in Fossil, Wyo., and we 
have gas right here in Salt Lake 
City, although not in abundance 
at jn-esent, but by sinking down 
deeper I would almost guarantee 
that we would find the desired 
fluid in as great a quantity as in 
Pittsburg, or in any other part of 
the world, for we have the oil 
and gas-bearing rock much 
nearer the surface in this coun- 
try than it is in the East, and it 
would cost much less to sink for 
it than in the East. 

Let me here give you a brief de- 
scription of the Geological Sur- 
vey of this western country. In 
parts of this country we have 
what is called the Dacota group 
of rocks, which varies in thick- 
ness from 1500 to 3000 feet. This 
group of rocks is composed of 
blue, black, and reddish shale, in- 
termixed with strata of a very 
close white sandstone varying in 
thickness from five to twenty 
feet, which contains fresh water. 
Underlying the Dacota group,and 
in many sections of the country, 
is found cropping out what is 
called the Triassic formations of 
rock, which is composed of strata 
of sandstone, conglomerate and 
limestone rock. The Triassic for- 
mation of rocks produce oil, water 
and gas, and is about 500 feet in 
thickness. Underlying the Tri- 
assic rocks is what is termed Ju- 
rassic rock, composed of red sand- 



stone and red fire clay exclusively, 
and varies from 110 to 1700 feet. 
Underlying the Jurassic rock 
comes a very porous gray sand 
rock, in which oil and gas have 
been found in abundance in Wy- 
oming Territory. The pressure 
of gas has not been tested, but 
when found, it threw oil and 
water sixty-five feet high. Those 
wells are all on an anticlinal. 
The rock dips in this section of 
Wyoming al)out 300 feet per 
mile. My anticlinal theory may 
be fanciful, but through a careful 
watch of the different formations, 
and the dip of rocks, I have never 
found oil or gas where the rocks 
lay perfectly horizontal (and I 
have sunk wells in various parts 
of the world.) 

Professor J. P. Lesley (geolo- 
gist), in an address delivered in 
Pittsburg before the Institute of 
Mining Engineers, February 17th 
last, in referring to the anticlinal 
theory, says: '"Location of anti- 
clinal lines in the Pittsburg gas 
region has become popular, pro- 
duced by a theory, and the whole 
community interested in the sub- 
ject of natm-al gas, abide by 
no other theory than the anti- 
clinal theory to obtain gas." 

To this I add the important 
consideration, that the move- 
ments of oil and water have been 
shown by actual practice and are 
governed entirely by the charac- 
ter of the rock and its position. 

I therefore claim that natural 
gas is generated from the sedi- 
mentary sandstone composed 
from life and vegetable matter, 
disintegrated particles of which 
have been sifted and deposited by 
the action of water. 

I also claim we have gas-bear- 
ing rock in and around this city, 
and at a much less depth than in 
the East. And the writer of this 



epistle would like to see some en- 
terprising firm take hold of this 
problem and sink for gas, and by 
doing so, I feel confident of their 
success. And success means a 
great benefit to our great and 
noble city. It is an undisputed 
fact that we have the best of fa- 
cilities to make Salt Lake City 
one of the largest and finest cit- 
ies in the world. The surround- 
ings of this city are equal, if not 
better, than Chicago, Philadelphia 
or New York. We can raise 
grain or fruit of all descriptions. 
We are surrounded by mountains 
which are rich in gold, silver and 
other precious metals. We have 
mineral springs of all kinds, both 
hot and cold. And then the 
Great Salt Lake (which is right 
at our door) a health and pleas- 
ure-seeking resort for us all. We 
have manufactories of different 
kinds. And as I now say, we have 
the finest climate in the woidd; 
and if we only had gas in paying 
quantities, it would not only in- 
duce manufactories to start up in 
our midst, but would induce 
other enterprises which would 
help to enhance the value of our 
property, and bring our already 
very attractive city to the front. 
There is nothing in the above 
article which will not apply with 
equal force to the city of Ogden. 
By reference to an article which 
appears in another column, it 
will be seen that natural gas 
abounds here, and is being made 
use of by our citizens. This ar* 
tide is based upon scientific facts, 
and the writer evidently under- 
stands the nature of the question 
he is dealing with. It is because 
it contains so much valuable in- 
formation of a scientific charac- 
ter which is in every way appli- 
cable to the city of Ogden, that it 
is given a place in this work. 



36 



OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST : 



THE MIRACLES OF THE 
SEASONS. 



/^HOSE people who scold about 
vS' the weather nowadays do 
wrong and are at best but 
spoiled children. Did not the au- 
tumn stretch out in sunny days 
and starry nights week after week 
until the farmer began to grow ap- 
prehensive of the next season's 
crop, and the stock men said low 
to each other: '"Things look badly 
for next season?" It was neces- 
sary that springs should be re- 
plenished in the hills, necessary 
that the harvest of next summer 
should be prepared for. So na- 
ture set her pumps to work, off 
on the Pacific. Those pumps 
were made of sunbeams, working 
on the warm currents of the sea, 
and the reservoir was the drifting 
air. Then on the laud the same 
sunbeams made hot the earth, 
and the heated air arose and 
floated away. This made a vacu- 
um, and the air from above the 
sea rushed in and upon the val- 
leys of Southern California and 
discharged a part of its load of 
moisture in drenching rain. Con- 
tinuing, it came where the air 
was colder on the desert in the 
higher altitude, and much colder 
when a mountain range was met 
and crossed, and so from the 
Sierras clear up the west slope 
of the Rockies, and for a thou- 
sand miles up aad down the fall 
has been in snow. We can wit- 
n'ess the outward phenomenon; 
the savants of the past have 
made the demonstration for us, 
and made clear how the miracle 
is performed, but the sublimity 
of the process through which the 
waters of tlie sea, cleansed of 
their salt, are carried and de- 
posited upon the broad backs of 
our mountain ranges, is only a 



part of the glory. Another mir- 
acle even yet more wonderful 
will be performed when the 
spring and the summer return. 
Even now tlie ^un has wheeled in 
his course in order to work with 
the water and the soil to per- 
form that miracle. He will touch 
and dissolve with his beams this 
waste of snow; first in the val- 
leys and then more slowly in the 
hills; ho will cause it to vanish 
and then caress with his warmth 
the frozen earth and restore it to 
life. Then the earth will realize 
its nakedness and call up its 
grass, kindle anew the warmth 
in its trees, and they in turn will 
hide their naked limbs with foli- 
age; later the spring lilooms will 
be awakened and following them 
will come the glory and the full 
fruition of the harvest. The two 
miracles are the perfect symbols 
of death and resurrection, and we 
suspect that the life of the spring 
after the death of the winter was 
what first caused poor mortality 
to turu its eyes upward and to 
nurse a hope of a life beyond the 
grave. Doubtless, too, the com- 
ing of the sun's heat to awaken 
the stiffened corpse of the world 
in spring, is what originated the 
faith of the simple Fire Worship- 
pers of old. So when mortals 
scold because of darkened and 
stormy days and the starless 
nights, they should comfort them- 
selves with the thought that 
these days and nights are, after 
all, laden with mercies to the hu- 
man race, and that they are Ijut 
a part of a miracle which as a 
whole, is more splendid than 
ever poet imagined or artist 
sketched. And the furious cold 
is a necessary adjunct. While the 
sunbeams were set to work in 
the sunny valleys and upon the 
warm southern sea, a notice 



was sent to the far north where 
Winter holds his seat that he 
with his outriders, the wild wind 
and the nipping frost, must be 
here to receive the gathered 
moisture, that he must roll the 
snow up with his winds until 
every depression was heaped full 
and must then hold it with his 
frost until it should become 
packed and settled, and until 
relieved of its watch by the 
spring sun. This is now being 
done, but mortals with dimmed 
visions see nothing of the splen- 
dors of the miirhty transformation 
scenes that are going on, but 
rather growl because it is cloudy 
and generally disagreeable. 
What a selfish and unreasonable 
race of creatures we are, and 
how narrow is the horizon in 
which we pass our little lives. — 
Sail Lake Trihiiiie of Jan. ■'<fli. 



PRODUCTS OF THE SOIL. 



ZTHE following table will give a 
v^ good idea of the average per 
acre of the products of the 
soil in Utah. 

Barley averages 32 bushels to 
the acre. 

Corn averages 27 bushels to the 
acre. 

Oats average 36 bushels to the 
acre. 

Wheat averages 28 bushels to 
the acre. 

Pears average 75 bushels to the 
acre. 

Peaches average 120 bushels to 
the acre. 

Plums average 165 bushels to 
the acre. 

Apricots average 145 bushels to 
the acre. 

Cherries average 75 bushels to 
the acre. 

Grapes average 6,260 pounds to 
the acre. 



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37 



UTAH FARMING. 



^7\ S a usual thing farms in Utah 
jl are small but exceedingly 
G/ well cultivated. The farm- 
ing population is composed almost 
exclusively of foreign-born people 
who for numerous reasons follow 
old country styles of farming, 
and generally they live in 
small settlements or villages and 
the farms are scattered about ad- 
jacent to the village. 

In early days this was neces- 
sary because of danger from 
Indians. Another reason for this, 
now is, that the farmers of a 
settlement or village are obliged 
to join together for the purpose of 
building the necessary irrigating 
ditches and it is more convenient 
for them to be near together. 
Irrigation is a necessity here in 
Utah, but fortunately there is 
plenty of water and with a little 
work the land that would be 
considered worthless by any one 
who is not familiar with the 
country, can be made to bring 
forth fifty and oftimes an hun- 
dred fold. Where water is 
plenty it is not a difficult job for 
one man to irrigate from 25 to 
50 acres of land and properly cul- 
tivate it during the season. Irri- 
gation is not such a difficult 
thing after all; people who have 
been used to depending on the 
rains to bring up there grain and 
insure an average harvest can 
not understand how it is that 
people who have to depend on 
this means of watering their 
fields can possibly raise an abun- 
dant crop; but they do it, and as 
a rule with less work than an 
eastern farmer who depends upon 
rain to make good his harvest. 
When a Utah farmer thinks his 
wheat needs water, he does not 
have to depend upon the heavens 



to supply it, he simply goes to the 
irrigating ditch which runs along 
the upper side of his field, and in 
a short time small streams of 
water are flowing down .through 
the field of grain. These little 
streams are just far enough apart 
so that the water will soak 
through the ground on each side 
of the stream until all the space 
between the streams is thor- 
oughly saturated. When the 
farmer thinks the grain is 
sufficiently watered he turns 
off the water from that 
particular field and looks after 
another field. 

It is not very hard work to 
attend to the water and in this 
consists the principal work of 
cultivation. Some one may won- 
der how it is that the farming 
lands lay in such a way that they 
can be irrigated to advantage. 
An all wise providence seems to 
have provided for this, and to-day 
there is scarcely a piece of land 
that is fit for farming purposes 
that does not slope from the 
mountains in such a way that 
there is no difficulty about irri- 
gating it thoroughly. The farm- 
ing land is to be found along the 
base of the mountains and in the 
plains below, but all of the land 
slopes away from the mountains, 
and as almost every cailon is 
provided with a stream of fresh 
water, it is not a very difficult 
matter to provide water for all 
of the farming land in the Terri- 
tory. Several large streams flow 
into the northern end of Great 
Salt Lake through broad fertile 
valleys, and the day will come 
when irrigating ditches will be 
built on a large scale. In one 
valley within 30 miles of this 
city several thousand acres of 
laud have been idle for years, 
waiting for some one to come 



along and build a large irrigat- 
ing ditch. 

Scarcely a place can be found 
in the Territory where the farm- 
ing land is not so situated that 
plenty of water can be obtained 
for it. 

A good deal of land is vacant 
to-day and subject to the desert 
land law, or it can be purchased 
by settlers. 

The expense of constructing 
irrigating ditches is more than 
compensated for by the satisfac- 
tion which the farmer has in 
knowing that he is not obliged 
to depend upon rain to make his 
crops good, that little matter he 
regulates to suit himself. The 
products of the soil are alluded to 
in another article. 



HOT SPRINGS. 



ONE of the principal health re- 
sorts of this inter-mountain 
country is the Hot Springs, 
ten miles north of this city. For 
years the waters of these springs 
have been known to possess pecu- 
liar medicinal properties. In early 
days the people for miles around 
would come and carrj^ away the 
water in barrels and casks, and it 
would be used as a blood purifier. 
Some years ago* R. H. Slater, 
purchased the springs and built 
a commodious hotel near them, 
and constructed pools for bathing 
purposes; since that time the re- 
putation of the springs has con- 
stantly increased. The water 
possesses all the medicinal prop- 
erties of the famous Hot Springs 
of Arkansas, and more; in fact, 
some regard the water of the 
Utah Hot Springs as far superior 
in every way to that of the Ar- 
kansas springs. 

For rheumatic trouble nothing 
can equal the waters of the Utah 



38 



OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST : 



Hot Springs; although there is 
occasionally a case where the pa- 
tient is not benefitted, but on the 
contrary the disease is aggra- 
vated by the use of the water for 
drinking or bathing purposes. 
Such cases are rare and cannot 
be accounted for. As a blood pu- 
rifier the water from these springs 
has no equal. The water is ipiite 
salty and very warm where it 
flows out of the ground. Even 
after flowing through an 
open trough for sevei'al hundred 
feet into the enclosed pools it is 
so hot that few people can bathe 
in it with comfort at first. A 
large pool has been constructed 
outside of the building where it 
is very pleasant to liatlie during 
the summer time, 

Although the water is salty it 
possesses other mineral proper- 
ties which do not make it un- 
pleasant to drink. 

With the addition of a small 
([uantity of iiepper a very fair 
quality of chicken broth can lie 
made, (it is not exacty chicken 
broth although it is better than 
chicken soup made by carrying a 
live chicken through a room 
where a kettle of water is boil- 
ing,) and is very pleasant to 
drink. Hundreds of people visit 
this resort every year and it is 
fast growing in popularity as a 
health resort. The present pro- 
prietor has expended a great 
deal of money in fitting up the 
place and is able to make his 
guests comfortable. It is also 
quite a pleasure resort as the 
bathing is good early and late in 
the season when it is too cool to 
bathe in the Lake. 



OUR ENGRAVINGS. 



SA OST of the engravings in this 
/ V l)ook were made by the fam- 
ous Moss Engraving Co. of 
New York from photographs by 
Adams Brothers. Any one who is 
familiar with the scenery in the 
vicinity of this city will recognize 
at once that they are well execut- 
ed, and strangers who have an eye 
for the beautiful in nature will 
see that they are real works of 
art. 

In selecting the subjects it was 
very difficult to decide which of 
the many fine scenes ought to be 
reproduced, and when the selec- 
tions were finally made, there still 
remained among the number put 
aside, dozens of scenes in every 
way equal to the ones chosen. 

The engravers evidently ap- 
preciated the fact that the sub- 
jects were far superior to the 
usual run of subjects, hence the 
superior excellence of the work. 
Messrs. Adams Brothers are to be 
congratulated because the en- 
gravers have so faithfully repro- 
duced the artistic effect of these 
photos. 

^»^ — 

METEOROLOGICAL. 



FEW meteorological com- 
parisons may be of interest 
to people who read a work 
of this kind. The following facts 
and figures are perfectly reliable: 



The amount of business done 
in the postottice in this city has 
increased twenty-five per cent in 
the last two quarters. 







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Augusta. (-Ja 


183 


SI. 140 69.2 


4 56 


48.'. 8 


640.2 


Jacksonville, Fla. 


4.s;«.li30 69 


5.38 


5"< 91 


690.2 


Boston, Mass 


142 2». 840 IW.5 


2.66 


49 47 


48). 5 


Newport. R 1 


312'J.950 74.3 


3(i7 


.')U.2() 


500.3 


New York. N. Y... 


164-i9,«.i1 71 '.2 


»02 


4i.70 


510.3 


Phliadeliiliia, Pa.. 


623i.(iH4 G8.8 


3.17 


41.89 


520.2 


Chli-ago, 111 


661 /J, 317 69.2 


2.77 


35.47 


490.3 


St. Paul, Mlim.... 


81129 133 67.3 


2.23 


2'J.B9 


430.9 


Lenver. I'ol 


5,294 21.778 45.8 


1.81 


14.77 


490.1 


Santa Ke.N.M.... 


7,1146 23.26:1 41.4 


1.61 


14.17 


480.5 


.■^alt Lake, Utah.. 


4,348 25. M4 41) 3 


1.76 


17.62 


510.8 


Los Angele.*. Cal . . 


35029.647. 65.8 


3.77 


18.97 


£90.8 



ASPHALTUM FIELDS. 

DOLPH BUSCH, the rich 
lu-ewer, and a number of 
other caiiitalists of St. 
Louis, are developing the great 
asiihaltum deposits of Thistle, 
a station on the D. & E. G. W. 
Railway in Spanish Fork Canon, 
Utah. The company has or- 
dered a $25,000 plant of machiu- 
eiy in St. Louis and is now x-e- 
ceiving bids for the erection of a 
three-story building, 40x115 feet. 
The asphaltum will he rendered 
from bituminous shale, whicli is 
soft and as heavily charged as it 
can carry. Nature has filtered it 
to the highest degree of purity, 
all that is required being the 
simple act of separation from a 
silicious combination. This, how- 
ever, has been considered a diffi- 
cult process under the conditions 
that usually prevail in such de- 
posits, but the energetic manager 
of the works. St. V. Le Sieur, has 
made the asphaltum fields of this 
region a close study for many years 
and has greatly simplified the 
process by which this can be ac- 
complished. Our deposits of 
asphaltum rank among the most 
valuable of our native resources 
and it is extremely gratifying to 
have them systematically devel- 
oped by men of brains, money 
and energy. We have the great- 
est confidence that they will 
prove highly remunerative and 
bring glory to the Territory while 
enriching the operators. — Salt 
Lake Journal of Commerce. 



Theke i.s hardly a more inviting 
field for enterprise than a large 
packing establishment in Utah. 
We send away live meat to the 
East and bring it back again 
when cured at the rate of thou- 
sands of dollars annually. 



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39 



RAILWAY PROSPECTS. 



IT is now known among the local 
railway officials, and among 

other people adinitted to the 
confidence of the magnates, that 
the plan proposed by President 
Adams for the building of the 
union depots here is as good as 
effected. A few days will doubt- 
less see its formal consummation. 

It is also well known that work 
upon the structure will be re- 
sumed in the spring — as early as 
the weather will permit men to 
begin advantageous labor. 

Further, it is known that large 
freight warehouses and other 
buildings and premises for the 
convenience of the vast railway 
interests of this city are contem- 
plated, and will be provided as 
rapidly as possible. 

In addition to the foregoing 
certainties there are two others 
which must not be forgotten. 
One is, that the slioi't line to Chi- 
cago, is as certain as death and 
taxes. This line, call it by what 
name you will — Salt Lake Val- 
ley & Eastern, for instance — will 
be 192 miles shorter than any 
other present route between the 
two magnificent centers — Ogden 
and the Garden City. When 
built, if Chicago and Ogden con- 
tinue to extend their boi'ders as 
rapidly as they are doing now, 
we may find ourselves almost in 
the heart of that place. One of 
the towns will simply annex the 
other. The second of these two 
latter certainties is that the Mis- 
souri Pacific must and will have 
representation in the Junction 
City of the West; and attached 
to this is the contributing one 
that a feeder into the north will 
immediately follow the appear- 
ance of the Missouri Pacific in 
Ogden — not more to the benefit 



and pleasure of this immediate 
locality than to the advan- 
tage and joy of Box Elder and 
Cache Counties, in Utah, and the 
settlements in the southei-n part 
of Idaho. 

Altogether, no other city in the 
country has a railway outlook 
which begins to compare with 
that which shows between Ogden 
and the horizon of 1S8S. — Ogden 
Standard. 



RAILROAD FREIGHTAGE. 



ZTHE following figm-es show the 

v2^ amount of freight received 

and forwarded from this city 

during the year ending December 

31, 1S87: 

CENTRAL PACIFIC. 

Forwarded. Beceived. 

January 11,154,003 6,749,750 

February 8,095,143 4.4(57,297 

March 12.399,667 9,284,742 

April 9,471,113 9,842,892 

May 5,524,347 8,984,.357 

.June 5,770,445 14,092,196 

July 3,614,978 11,157,896 

August 6,137,336 10,238,679 

September 4,406,486 9,938,096 

October 4,543,112 9,381,658 

November 2,537,667 9.768,586 

December 2,918,202 5,794,750 

Totals 79,572,499 109,700,905 

The following figures are taken 
from a carefully prepared table 
arranged by the Union Pacific : 
Amount of freight received, 432," 
253,570 pounds. Amount for- 
warded, 90,850,795 pounds, 16,- 
845,867 of fruit produced was for- 
warded from this city over the 
Union Pacific during the year. 

The D. &R.G.W. has delivered 
102,893,740 pounds of freight and 
forwarded 85,975.600 pounds. This 
road also forwarded 5,498,700 
pounds of fruit and produce. 
The above figures are taken from 
the tonnage report prepared by 
J. H. Bennett of the D. & R. G. 
W. for the Salt Lake Tribune. 



It will be seen that during the 
year the merchants of Ogden 
have received 644,847,221 pounds 
of freight and have shipped out 
256,398,894 pounds to their cus- 
tomers. 



A BUSINESS CENTER. 



/^VERYTHING indicates that 
\^ Ogden City is just entering 
upon an era of unprece- 
dented prosperity. During the 
time of the building of the Ore- 
gon Short Line, business was 
more than lively in this city, and 
many thought that it would con- 
tinue to improve after the road 
was completed: but as the road 
was the next thing to a failure 
from a business point of view, 
the boom that was expected to 
strike this inter-mountain region 
as soon as it was ready for busi- 
ness, failed to make its appear- 
ance, business flattened out and a 
great many firms were wrecked 
as a result. 

The experience proved to be 
beneficient to the business inter- 
ests of our city. Our business 
men tore down these air castles 
and commenced building up their 
business on a solid foundation, 
without depending upon outside 
influence to insure them success. 

The consequence has been that 
our city has been gaining ground, 
slowly but surely, for the past 
three years, as a commercial cen- 
ter, and now bids fair to be the 
central wholesale market for 
the surrounding States and Ter- 
ritories. 

In saying so much, we do not 
mean to set Ogden up as the rival 
of any of the neighboring cities. 
Its location is so eminently favor- 
able for this class of business, 
that it is perfectly natural that it 



40 



OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST : 



should aspire to commercial 
lionors. 

It was the favorable location 
of Chicago which has, in connec- 
tion with the business enterprise 
of its citizens, made it the great 
Inisiness center of the Northern 
Mississippi Valley, and as Oj^den 
has this advantage of location, 
our business men simply intend 
to make use of all the natural 
advantages which it possesses, 
in connection with their own 
business pluck and enterprise, to 
attain prominence in the com- 
mercial world. 

A prominent Eastern capital- 
ist told tlic writer a short time 
ago, that it was his opinion that 
Ogden was bound to grow and 
liecome a prominent manufactur- 
ing and commercial cit.y. and 
that it would become so natur- 
ally because of its location. He 
was satisfied that money, judi- 
ciously invested in real estate in 
city property, would pay good in- 
terest on the amount invested. 

if strangers can see the natur- 
al advantages of our city at a 
glance, and feel assured of its 
future prosperit3% certainly our 
citizens ai-e not given to vain 
boasting when they claim that 
the city is bound to become one 
of the most important interior 
busir:ess centers of the great 
Northwest country. 

The Chicago ic Northwestern 
and C. B. it Q. and one or two 
other railroads will certainly be 
I'unning trains into this city in 
less than two years, and when 
they are open for business, one 
of tlie natural results will l)e a 
reduction in the rate of freight 
both East and West, which will 
prove beneficial to the country 
generally, and have a strong ten- 
dency to transfer a large portion 
of the wholesale business which 



is now enjoyed by Eastern cities, 
west of the Rocky Mountains. 
The building of more railroads 
will develop the country and in- 
crease the demand for merchan- 
dise. When all this comes to 
pass, then the city that is the 
hub from whifh all these spokes 
of commerce radiate, will grow 
in proportion to the development 
of the surrounding country. 



UTAH SULPHUR. 



flour mill stone and is ground 
into pieces about the size of ker- 
nels of wheat. It is then passed 
through another stone that 
grinds it as fine as flour, and 
sacked ready for .shipment. On 
an average from eight to teutons 
is thus turned out each day, but 
the company is prepared to put 
up considerable more if the mar- 
ket demands it. — Salt Lake Enter- 
prise. 



CZ OME twenty-two miles north 
(g^ of Beaver, just south of the 
northern boundary of Beaver 
county, says a correspondent, we 
turned to the east of the main 
road, and after traveling about a 
mile through the cedars, that are 
very abundant in both Beaver 
and Millard counties, we reached 
the sulphur beds owned by Mr. 
Dickert of Salt Lake City, and 
Mr. Myers of Cleveland, Ohio. 
The sulphur can be seen on the 
surface of the earth over an area 
of about ten acres. IIow far it 
extends under the low hills which 
surround the beds and the thick- 
ness of the layer is not yet known 
though it has been tested thirty 
feet down. The best parts of the 
bed yet worked turn out 90 per 
cent of sulphur. The crude ma- 
terial is quarried out similar to 
the way rock is. It is then loaded 
into a car which is drawn by a 
mule to the smelter, about 300 
yards distant. There it is put 
into steam retorts which hold 
aliout two and a half tons each. 
About 60 pounds of steam is then 
applied for two hours. This is 
sufficient to melt the sulphur, 
which is drawn off into vats and 
allowed to cool. When hard it is 
taken out, allowed to dry, and it 
is taken to the mills. There it is 
put through a stone similar to a 



CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. 



OFFICERS of the Ogden Cham- 
ber of Commerce for the en- 
suing year: 
Judge P. H. Emerson, President. 
H. S. Young, First Vice-President. 
L. B. Adams, SecondV ice-President. 
J. H. Knauss, Secretarij. 
0. E. Hill, Treasurer. 

directors: 

James Mack, Mill Owner. 

H. L. Griffin, Wholesale Pro- 
duce. 

H. S. Young, Banker. 

P. H. Emerson, Lawyer. 

J. C. Armstrong, Banker. 

L. B. Adams, Banker. 

S. M. Preshaw, Contractor and 
Builder. 

David Kay, Wholesale Produce. 

Sidney Stevens, Agricultural Im- 
plement Dealer. 

J. Brinker, R. R. General Agent. 

H. M. Bond. Groceries and Pro- 
duce. 

John Watson, General Merchan- 
dise. 

V. M. C. SiLVA. Hides and Wool. 



On the evening of the 29th of 
December, a vigorous thunder 
storm rattled over the valley as 
the result of the warm day that 
had preceded it. How does that 
strike you folks back East with 
your 20 below climate for Christ- 
mas week? 



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41 



DOES CAPITAL ALWAYS 
WIN? 

ZTHIS is a question which has 
v© been ofteu answered affirm- 
atively; indeed, we should say 
that capital is commonly believed 
to be the principal lever to suc- 
cess. While we do not for a mo- 
ment wish to place a low esti- 
mate upon the value of ample 
capital, we do think that in 
many cases it is greatly over-es- 
timated. How many people there 
are in the world who are always 
saying that if they had but so 
much money they could make a 
fortune or could work wonders. 
These people never dream of try- 
ing to accomplish their task by 
steady and persistent work, but 
sit down and wait until some 
good and generous spirit comes 
round and hands them the money. 
It is needless to say that as a rule 
they wait a long time, and of- 
tener than not wait entirely in 
vain for the generous spirit. If 
these projectors of wealth would 
be practical and endeavor to put 
some of their theories into prac- 
tice, much better results on the 
average would be secured. The 
man who sits and waits will never 
succeed. 

But is capital so necessary to a 
young business man as is usually 
supposed? If it were possible to 
collect the statistics of all mer- 
chants who commence business, 
with the capital of each, and the 
ultimate result of all, we verily 
believe that the majority of the 
most successful would be found 
to have commenced with a com- 
paratively small sum. If we in- 
vestigate the history of most of 
the successful merchants of to- 
day, it will be found that they 
commenced business with little 
or no capital. 



Why, it may be asked, is it that 
we do not have so much faith in 
one who commences with a large 
capital ? We have faith in them, 
providing all other things are 
equal, but as a rule, they are not 
equal. In the first place there is 
a temptation, which is very sel- 
dom resisted, to rely to much on 
the capital and too little on the 
energy. The man who has capi- 
tal often lacks the merits which 
those who are not so "lucky" pos- 
sess. We do not deny that in the 
hands of competent men capital 
has large power, and is capable 
of being used with force against 
those who have none. At the 
same time we think that men 
should not place too high a value 
upon it, thus standing in their 
own light. If a man has some 
capital, a good character, com- 
bined with industry and good 
judgment, we think that lack of 
sufficient capital should never 
stop him from trying to accom- 
plish his ends. If he does try, 
nine times out of ten he will 
prove successful. We therefore 
say, do not be discouraged simply 
because you have not capital suf- 
ficient to make business easy, but 
try and work hard to overcome 
the difficulty. 



NOTICE. 



Nothing is said in this work 
al)Out the many different business 
enterprises which our citizens en- 
gage in. By reference to the 
advertising pages any one who is 
at all interested can find out what 
kind of business the enterprising 
business men of Ogden follow. 
Long-winded business puffs are 
not necessary in this instance, 
because on the advertising pages 
better and more eloquent arti- 
cles can be found than conld pos- 
sibly be written in any other 
way. 



ZTHE people who receive a copy 
vS^ of this work are requested to 
read it carefully and ponder 
over it. It has been prepared at 
great expense and was not des- 
tined for the waste basket. Most 
every one who is so fortunate as 
to obtain a copy will appreciate it, 
but for fear that some one who is 
not interested in the beauties of 
nature may get hold of a copy of 
this work, it has occurred to its 
that such a note as this is proper. 
If you are not at all interested in 
the work hand it to the next 
person you happen to meet and 
the chances are ten to one that 
he or she will accept it with 
pleasure,and thank you very much 
for the present. 

m*m . 

BONANZA MINES. 

T is upon true fissure veins that 
the great mines of the world 
have been located. Names and 
production as follows: 

Bissenna Silver Mine | 16,311,000 

Santa Anna " " 21,347,000 

Valanta " " 31,813,000 

Parmillian " " 70,000,000 

Veta Madre " " 335,945,000 

Comstock " •' 410,000,000 

Rio Grande " " 650,000,000 

Sierra Madre" " 800,000,000 

Potosi " " 1,000,000,000 

GOLD AND SILVER. 

Tha world's annual production 

of which the United States 

produces fully one-half, is at 

present $200,000,000 

During the last twentj-flve years 

India has taken an average of 

$38,000,000, and China $9,000.- 

OOO.making the average yearly 

absorption of silver by these 

nations 47,000,000 

In he arts tlie United States is 

using in gold and silver $15,- 

000,000 yearly, and the rest of 

the world fully $35,000,000 

more.making in all per annum 50,000,000 
Counting loss and abrasion 3,000,000 

We have left for the purposes 
of coinage for the entire 
world only $100,000,000 



42 



OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST 



FLOUR. 

IN no class of industry, perhaps 
Lave improvements been more 
rapid and startling than in that 
of manufacturing tlour. New 
machiner}' is constantly being 
made, and the man who will se- 
cure the most extensive patron- 
age must be in possession of the 
most recent machiiaery for con- 
verting grain and flour. 

The yield of wheat in the vi- 
cinity of Ogden every year is 
large. The supply is ample, and 
in addition to the large quantity 
consumed locally, hundreds of 
car loads are dispatched to all 
points East, West, North and 
South, every year. Indeed to 
such large proportions has the 
flouring Inisiness in Ogden groAvn, 
the city has very aptly been 
termed "the Minneapolis of the 
West." 

At present, Ogden has two of 
the finest flour mills in the West- 
ern country. These are fitted 
with the very best machinery, 
and they turn out an enormous 
quantity of 1 tread stuff every 
year. 

These mills are the Eagle Mills, 
the Phoenix Mills, and the Ad- 
vance Mills. The former are 
operated by steam power and the 
latter two by water power. 

The market for Ogden flour, as 
stated above, is found in all the 
States and Territories. Through 
the energy and enterprise of the 
gentlemen who control the local 
floujfing industry, the market is 
constantly being extended, and 
the mills are kept running almost 
day and night. 

Another demand for flour will 
be created when the proposed 
cracker factory is established. It 
will be much better for Ogden 
people to be able to eat crackers 



made at home from grain grown 
and gi'ound close to their doors, 
instead of having to patrouize 
outside manufacturers whose 
goods are made from flour pro- 
duced elsewhere. 

The flour mills of Ogden are ben- 
eficial institutions. They are well 
patronized and the patronage is 
encouraging for the present sea- 
son, and the millers are happy. 
A few other establishments of an 
industrial nature; as well 
equipped and as energetically 
managed is what Ogden needs 
and is what Ogden will get too. — 
OflJeii 11 era Id. 



THE RAILROAD AN EDU- 
CATOR. 



p\ROF. HOGG, of Fort Worth, 
2. y furnished some good matter 

* for reflection as one sits by a 
cheerful fire on an otherwise dis- 
mal wintry day, such as the days 
that have passed and those we ex- 
pect to meet in the futui-e. His 
little pamphlet on "The Railroad 
as a Means of Education" ought to 
act as a sure cure for pessimism, 
for it conclusivelj' demonstrates 
that we live in the best age of 
the world, and are preparing a 
better age for our successors to 
live in. 

As one looks upon the fir.st 
snow of the season the mind goes 
through all that it knows of the 
horrors of travel in cold lands; 
the traveler lost in the snows of 
the Alps, and perhaps rescued by 
those wonderful dogs of the Hos- 
pice of St. Bernard, which played 
so great a part in our youthful 
visions of adventure. By the 
happy agency of railroads the 
frozen traveler and the wonder- 
ful dogs are remote as those of 
the iron-armored knights who 
went in quest of dragons that de- 
voured Christian maids. 



A cushioned railway carriage, 
well warmed and cosy enough to 
sleep in, takes the traveler un- 
der the Alps by way of the 
Mount Cenis or St. Gothard Tun- 
nel, in less time than it takes to 
go from one part of the new cor- 
porate limits of Omaha to the 
other, and with infinitely more 
comfort. The §25,000,000 ex- 
pended in the construction of 
these tunnels gave the Italian 
and Swiss peasants twenty years 
of experience of the blessing of 
good wages. In our own country 
a journey underneath the Appal- 
achian Kange is accomplished as 
quickly and as pleasantly as a 
"run down town." It is no long- 
er true that, 

'MouDtains iutf rposes 
Make enfimies of nations, which h:id else 
Like kindred drops been miu°;led into one. 

The interchange of commodi- 
ties and thoughts is now easy be- 
tween all civilized people. 

And not only have the railwaj' 
projectors annihilateil distance, 
they have reduced risk to what 
would have seemed an impossi- 
ble minimun fifty years ago. Be- 
tween May 10 and November 10, 
1875, a certain line of railway 
carried 4,955,712 passengers 
without injury to one of them; 
the same line carried 17,004,954 
tons of freight and IS.^JOS.HGO 
passengers in one year without a 
loss of life or property. For in- 
stance, ten thousand miles of 
railways center in Chicago, seven 
hundred trains enter and leave 
its depots every day, and with 
rarely a serious accident. The 
same can, in effect, be said of 
Ogden. Nor have they only 
made travel swift and sure, they 
have made it cheap. Seventeen 
barrels of flour can be carried 
from Chicago to New York at 
the rate of one cent per mile. In 
less than thirty hours one can 



ITS MANUFACTURING AND BUSINESS ADVANTAGES. 



43 



pass from the great city of the 
West to the great city of the 
East, warm and dry, no matter 
how wet and cold it may be with- 
out. Those fruits of the tropics 
which were almost as inaccess- 
ible to the boy of hfty years ago 
as the jewels of Golconda, are 
now sold for a cent at every 
street corner. The manufacture 
of domestic products has been so 
stimulated by facilities of trans- 
portation that the man of very 
moderate means, even the ordi- 
nary wage- worker, now furnish- 
es his house more tastefully and 
clothes himself more comforta- 
bly than many a German baron 
did a century ago. And the ap- 
plication of steam to the process 
of printing and the telegraph to 
the collection of news, has placed 
those greatest of luxuries, the 
book and the newspaper, in the 
rank of the most cheaply pur- 
chased necessaries. 

Nor shall those successful 
railway managers who have ac- 
cumulated such wealth as would 
have seemed fabulous to our 
fathers be condemned unheard. 
Not only have they done good to 
all of us by cheapening the pleas- 
ures and needs of life while gath- 
ering riches for themselves, but 
they have, for the most part, 
used their riches more benefi- 
ciently than is generally 
credited to them. Colonel 
Tom Scott died worth $20,000,000, 
and bequeathed $200,000 to col- 
leges and hospitals at his death, 
besides giving largely during his 
life. The late William H. Vander- 
bilt,albeit he was often spoken of 
as ''the public be damned Van- 
derbilt," gave not less than $925,- 
000 to education and charitable 
purposes. The gifts of the first 
and second Vanderbilts aggre- 
gated $1,525,000. Now the Van- 



derbilt property has never been 
estimated at more than $150,000,- 
000, so that their gifts are in the 
ratio of one per cent to capital. 
Does he who is worth $10,000 gen- 
erally leave $100 by devise to 
public charities or colleges? Or 
does he who is worth $100,000 
generally leave $1,000? Do not 
these figures show, at the least, 
as much of charitable impulse in 
a millionaire as in the man of 
moderate wealth? And it must 
be borne in mind that the 
younger Vanderbilts have added 
largely to the good deeds of their 
sires. 

And the late Colonel John W. 
Garrett left $1,000,000 in six per 
cent bonds for the use of the Bal- 
timore Association for the relief 
of the poor. This was probably 
at the rate of 2A per cent of the 
value of his estate. The gifts of 
John Hopkins and Leland Stan- 
ford were in still higher propor- 
tion to the true value of their 
properties. So that it is certain 
that the growth of wealth has not 
crushed out the spirit of active 
benevolence. Men can enjoy the 
increased comforts of life un- 
troubled by a just suspicion that 
the era of brotherly feeling has 
been supplanted by one of greed. 
The world of to-day is, morally as 
well as materially, better than 
that of yesterday. And the world 
of to-morrow will be vastly bet- 
ter than that of to-day,if the intel- 
ligent people of to-day will exert 
themselves and do as much to- 
ward making it so as the too of- 
ten and too harshly judged rail- 
way kings have been doing. 



A BURSTING BOOM, 



XTHE Descret News says that the 
v2^ Los Angeles boom, like many 
others, has its drawbacks. 
Recently the celebrated climate, 
which has been selling at about 
a thousand dollars a foot front, 
suddenly became a little erratic 
in its conduct, and the result was 
that quite a section of the town 
was blown over by the spicy 
breezes of that favored clime. 
Whether or not this has had any 
effect on investments there, cer- 
tain it is that the Evening Express 
of that place published a list of 
delinquent taxes, principally un- 
der the head of "Unknown Own- 
ers," which filled forty-four long 
columns of finely-printed matter. 
The said "unknown owners" are 
notified in an editorial note that 
unless the g,mounts due are paid 
immediately the lots will be sold 
for taxes. — Ogden Standard. 



The Salt Lake Valley and East- 
ern, is the name of a new railroad 
which it is purposed shall be 
built in the near future, already 
a survey of the Western portion 
of the road has been made, and 
it is learned from reliable sources 
that it is the intention to com- 
mence work early May next. 
This new road will extend from 
this city to some point on the 
Missouri River where it will con- 
nect with a leading eastern road 
and form one of its many West- 
ern connections. 



It is possible that a few errors 
may have crept into this work, 
regardless of the fact that the 
utmost care has been taken from 
the first to guard against them, 



The Secretary of the Chamber 
of Commerce, will be pleased to 
answer all letters of inquiry, that 
may be sent him by parties desir- 
ing to obtain particular and 
reliable information in regard to 
the great and growing Territory 
of Utah. 



44 



OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST 



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DR. J. L. HETZLER, 
POPULAR DENTIST. 

All Operations in the Various Branches of 

Dentistry rerfornied in the Most 

Skillful Manner. 

All Work Warranted. 

Office, Fourth Street, - OGDEN, UTAH. 



J. R. BROWN, 
VlhnlesHlB PrnducE BEaler 

AND COMMISSION MERCHANT, 

Dealer in all kinds of Farm Products. Butter, 
Eggs and Poultry a Specialty. 

P. O. Box 683. OGDEN, UTAH. 



CHAPMAN HOUSE, 

(One Block from Union Depol) 

Fifth Street, - - OGDEN, UTAH. 

W. M. CHAPMAN, Proprietor. 

Finest ^1.50 to $2.00 a Day House in the City. 

Street Cars Pass Every Fifteen Minutes. Carri- 
ages to and from all Trains. 

W. L. BUSWELL, 

DF..\t.I£H IN 

Watches, Clocks and Jewelry. 

REPAIRING A SPECIALTY. 
Fourth Street, opposite Z. C. M. I., Ogden, Utah. 



H. B. FORBES, 

Dciilcr in all kinds of 

flew ^toVB^, Tinwai'B, 

NOTIONS, 
AND SECOND-HAND (iOODS. 

Fifth Street, between Main and Young, 
OGDEN, - - - UTAH. 



G. G. GRIFFITH, 

Fruit Grower and Ice Packer. 

AU kinds of Choice P'ruit in Season. Choice 
Mountain Ice a Specialty. 

OGDEN, UTAH. 

C. E. PETERSON, 

P'irst-Class Horseshoing a Specialty. 
Corner Third and Main Streets, OGDEN, UTAH. 

RICHARD WILLIAMS, 

Plumber and Gas Fitter, 

Water and C.as Introduced into Buildings. 
Satisfaction Guaranteed. 

Main .St., between Third & I-'ourth, Ogden, Utah. 



J. THOMPSON, 
Hardware, Tin and Copperware. 

Agent for the Celebrated G.irland Stoves and Ranges, the 

World's Best, and don't you forget it, for that is what 

they said at the Great Fair at New Orleans. 



OGDEN, 



UTAH. 



Fourth Street, between Young and Main. 

Everything in the Line. All Work 
Guaranteed. 

C. D. HAVES, Proprietor. 

OGDEN, UTAH. 



SALT LAKE TRIBUNE. 



The Great Daily of the Intee- 
MouNTAiN Region. 



I-ARGKR CIRCULATION DAILY TH.VN Alt 

OTHEK DAILIES IN UTAH TERKITORV 

COMBINED. 



Best Telegraphic Service. Fullest Market Reports. 

Pungent Editorials on all Interesting 

Topics of the Day. 



Daily, by Mail, postage paid, Si.oo per month. 

Weekly, three months, Si.cx); six months,Si.75 ; 
one year, Sj.oo. 



JAMES IVERSON, 

I(eal Estate g Loan i^genfc 

114 Main Street, OGDEN, UTAH. 



I have for sale a large number of desirable 
properties of all descriptions. Business property 
from g2,ooo to §30,000. Residences from S500 
to S7,ooo. 

Also fine building lots, block)^ of land in suburbs of city, 
and improved farms from lo to 200 acres. I am prepared to 
offer good bargains to parties wishing io invest in Ogdcn 
Cily or Weber County. 

MONEY TO LOAN ON REAL ESTATE. 

To Parties outside thcTerritory in trusting Money to be 
loaned by mc, I guarantee principal and interest. 
Reference; Commercial National Bank. 

ROYAL DANISH CONSUL FOR UTAH. 

McBETH & GOODALE. 

Szperiencd Plobers, Gas and Stsam Pipe Fitters. 

.Satisfaction (iuaranteed. DitVicult Jobs Under- 
taken and Completed on Short Notice. 

Main .St., bet. Third & Fourth, Ogden City, Utah. 



GEO. B. DOUGLAS.S, 
EENEHflL BLACKSMITH, 

Established 1855. Horseshoing a Specialty. AU kinds 

of Iron Fencing and Gates made to order. General 

Jobbing. Carriages, Buggies and Wagons 

repaired to order. 

OGDEN, .... 



UTAH. 



S. J. BURT & BROS., 

Dry Goods, Notions, Gents' Fnmlsliini Goods, 

Ladies' and Misses' Wraps, Fine Shoes, the 

largest and best selected stock in the City. 

Special attention paid to Mail Orders. 



OGDEN, 



UTAH. 



EMPIRE MEAT MARKET. 

Leading Wtiolesale and lietail Meat Market of Ogden Citf. 

FRKSH and S;ilied Meals kept constantly on hand. All 
kinds of Sausages a specially. Game, Fish and Poultry in 
season. Highest prices paid for Fat Stock and Poultry. 
Prompt attention paid to orders by mail Persons wishing 
to secure bargains in meats will find it to their advantage to 
call at the Empire Market before purchasing elsewhere, as 
I will not be undersold. Fifth street, south oTRroom Hotel, 
Ogden, Utah. P. GRILL, Proprietor. 



The mechanical work on this Book was done in The 
Tribune Jon Rooms, Salt Lake City, and is a fair specimen 
of work done at their establishment. The Tribune Company 
is prepared to do all kinds of Hook , Catalogue, and Mercan- 
tile Printing at reasonable rates. Correspondence solicited 
and prompt attention given. 




W^ 06DEN K.MI'F'FIjVG Fj^CTORY. 
LUKE & KLETTING. 

Fourth Street, - - UL^DEN, UTAH. 



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45 



J. C. ARMSTRONG, Prest. 
HENRY CONANT, Vice Prest. 



O. E. HILL, Cashier. 

W. V. HELFRICH, .\sst. Cash. 



THE 



CommBi'cial Wational Banl^ 



OF OGDEN, UTAH. 



Paid in Capital, $150,000. Surplus and Undivided 
Profits, $40,000. 



This Bank has the Largest Capital of any Bank in the City. 
Unsurpassed facilities for Making Collections throughout the 
Northwest. Correspondence invited. 





DIRECTORS: 




J. C. Armstrong, 


M. Buchmiller, 


O. E. Hill, 


Henry Conant, 


Adam Patterson, 
David Eccles. 


John S. Lewis. 



J. E. DOOLY, Prest. W. N. SHILLING, Vice Prest. 

L. B. ADAMS, Cashier. 



UTAH NATIONAL BANK, 



OGDEN, UTAH. 



TJ. S. IDE^'OSITOK>Y. 



CAPITAL, $100,000. SURPLUS AND UNDI- 
VIDED PROFITS, $75,000. 



Transact a General Banking Business. Foreign 
Exchange on all the Principal Cities in Europe. 



first national I^anl^, 

OGDEN, UTAH, 

In the Z. C. M. I. Building. 



Paid in Capital, $100,000. Surplus Capital, $20,000. 



DIRECTORS : 



H. S. Eldredge, President, F. Little, 
D. H. Peery, Vice President, L. S. Hills, 
John Sharp, Jas. Sharp, 



D. Eccles, 

R. J. Taylor, 

H. S. Young, Cashier. 



BUYS AND SELLS EXCHANGE 

— ON — 

New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Omaha, London, and 
Principal Continental Cities. 

MAKES COLLECTIONS, REMITTING PROCEEDS PROMPTLY. 



Interest Paid on Savings Deposits. 



FIRE INSURANCE OFFICE IN THE BANK. 



J. S. LEWIS & CO., 



-DEALERS IN- 



lAMONDS AND FINE JEWELRY 



Elgin, Waltham and Howard 



irmwoMMi 



MAIN STREET, 



OGDEN, UTAH. 



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OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST 



]BOYIaM 



mm 



WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN 



PURNITURE AND CARPBTS. 

We also make a Specially of Children's Carriages. We receive them in car loads and handle more 
than any other house in the West. 

We carry Window Shades and Fixtures, Cornice Poles, Turcoman, Madrass and Lace Curtains, 
Feathers and Pillows, Mattresses, Comforters, and a complete line of first-class Household Goods. 

We make a specialty of shipping, and control the trade of Northern Utah and Southern Idaho, 
besides a large part of Nevada. 

We have first-class Carpet Makers and Upholsterers, and are prepared to do first-class work. 



SEND FOR OUR NEW ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. 



Our Prices are always at the bottom, and honorable treatment guaranteed. 

ZIOFS CO-OPEEATITE lEECAITILE IfflTUTIOI, 

IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN 

Gknbral Merchandise. 



CLOTHING, 

DRY GOODS, 
NOTIONS, 



GROCERIES, TABLE AND POCKET CUTLERY, 

HARDWARE, STOVES, QUEENSWARE, 

FARMING TOOLS, GLASSWARE, 



BOOTS AND SHOES, 



PAINTS AND OILS, 



WALL PAPER, CARPETS. 



Call and examine our Stock, or write for Price List. 



JOHN WATSON, Manager. 



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MKRCHANT TAILOR, 



Up Stairs, Lewis Brick Building, Main Street, 



P O. Bo-c 246. 



OQDEN, UTAH. 



^ TKT. TXT. IF'TT 



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HARDWARE. 


STOVES. 


TI N WAR E. 


BUILDERS' HARDWARE, 

Carpenters' Tools, Miners' Supplies, 
Farmers' Implements, 

Nails, Etc. 


Stoves and Ranges, 

Richardson & Boyntov Hot Air 

Heaters, and Grand Active 

Wrought Steel Ranges. 


HOUSE FURNISHINGS, 

TIN PLATE, ETC. 

MANUFACTURER OF 

Tinware, Copperware, Sheet Iron 
Ware of Every Description. 


144 l^^IIT ST., 


OC3-IDEIT, 


TJT^HI. 



I» 



Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes, 



EENTS' FURNISHING EflnnS fiNH FflffllLY ERnCERIES. 



AGENT FOR BUTTERICK PAPER PATTERNS. 



AGENT FOR BALL HEALTH PRESERVING CORSET. 



Mail Orders Receive Prompt and Careful Attention. 



oo-de:^, tjt^^h:. 






BmMM; 



I'd 



BelTning & Son, and Conover Bros. Pianos, 

PIANO STOOLS, MUSIC BOOKS, TABER AND NEWMAN BROS. ORGANS. 



Guitars from $5.00 to $60.00; Banjos from $5.00 to $40.00; Violins from $5.00 to $100.00; Accordeons from 

$1.25 to $18.00. Music Boxes, Autoharps, a General Assortment of Musical Merchandise 

DOMESTIC SEWING MACHINES : THE KING OF ALL ! 



48 OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST 



FRKD. J. KEISBIv & CO., 

FOURTH STREET, OGDEN, UTAH, 

Wholesale Grocers, 

CIGAR, TOBACCO AND LIQUOR MERCHANTS. 



GENERAL AGENTS FOR THE 



ADAMS & KEISEL SALT COMPANY OF SYRACUSE. 



WESTERN AGENTS FOR THE 



PHIL BEST BREWING COMPANY BOTTLED BEER. 



CARRY A HEAVY STOCK OF WHTSICTES IN KENTUCKY, BOTH IN BOND AND FREE. 



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W. KAY & CO., 



WHOLESALE 



piioducejFfuitandllraiil. 



SPECIALTIES : 



Potatoes, Cabbage, Onions, Grain, Seeds, Butter, 

Eggs, Cheese, Poultry, Fresh Fish and Oysters, 

Oranges, Lemons, Bananas, Nuts, Candies, 

Crackers, Dried Fruit, and all kinds of 

Domestic and Imported Fruits, Etc. 



OGDEN, 



UTAH. 



GEO. W. HARRIS, 

dontractof and Buildei'. 



Plans and Specifications Furnished to 

Order, and all Work Executed 

in a Thorough Workman 

Like Manner. 

Office Opposite City Hall. 



P. O. Box 833. 



OGDEN, UTAH. 



N. B. 



N. B. 



N. B. 



ROLLIN P. SAXE, 

Importer, Exporter and Commis.sion Mer- 
chant in all kinds of 

Thorougbred Live Stock. 

OGDEN, UTAH. 

T. W. JONES, 
l^ine 'failoping 

AND 

MEN'S FURNISHING GOODS, 

Fifth Street, near Young, 
OGDEN, - - - UTAH. 



S. M. PRESHAW, 

Undertaker, Funeral Director and 

Embalmer. 

Ogden, Utah. 



E. & N. PARR, 

Wholesale and Retail Dealers 
in all kinds of 

PRODUCE 

WHEAT, OATS, BARLEY 
AND POTATOES. 

We make a specialty in shipping by car 
lots to all points. 



Fourth Street, 



OGDEN, UTAH. 



Established 18S0. 

SALT LAKE BEER HALL, 

Fifth Street, near Broom Hotel, 
OGDEN, UTAH. 

Salt Lake CityBrewing Company's 

Beer, Guinness Dublin Stout 

Half and Half, on draught. 

Wines, Liquors and Cigars, First 
Quality Only. 

R. J. HILL, Proprietor. 



The Chamberlain House, 

Fifth St., between Franklin & Wall, 
OGDEN, UTAH. 



One of the Leading Hotels of the 

City. Convenient to Depot. 

Rates Reasonable. 



GEO. W. LASHUS, Proprietor. 



Livery, Feed &Sale Stable, 



Main Street, OGDEN, UTAH. 



Leave Orders at Hotel Offices. 



J. M. DEE, Proprietor. 



J. G. REED, 

The Leading Saddler of Ogden, 

Does a General Wholesale and Retail 
Trade in everything in the Harness 
Line, and for a Genuine Chey- 
enne, Texas or Veralia Stock 
Saddle are second to none. 



P. O. Box 785. 



OGDEN, UTAH. 



International UnionWliite Labor Cigar Factory 

L L DAVIDSON, 

Eigar MannfaEturEr, 

HAVANA CIGARS A SPECIALTY. 

I make the Chamber of Commerce, University, 

and other famous brands of Cigars. 1 also 

manufacture a fine line of cheaper goods, 

and can sell as cheap as Eastern 

or Western Manufacturers. 

Satisfaction Guaranteed. Orders Promptly 

attended to. 

L. L. DAVIDSON, 

Fifth St., between Young lS: Main, Ogden, Utah. 



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II 

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Wholesale FruH and Produce 



OGDEN, UTAH. 



SI^EOI^LTIES : 



Figs, 



Dates, 

Potatoes, 

Sweet Potatoes, 
Cabbage, 
Onions, 



Lemons, 
Oranges, 
Grapes, 
Apples. 
Peaches, 

Cocoannts, 
Celery, Popcorn, 

Honey, Jellies, 

Cider, Dried Fruits. 

Eggs, Dressed Meats, 

Butter, Fish, 

Game, Etc. 




ED Heart Ac/demy, 



OGDEN, CITY, UTAH. 



Conducted by the Sisters of the Holy Cross. 




The course of Study is thorough, embracing all the 

Ijranches of a Solid and Accomplished 

Education. 



HEADQUARTERS FOR UTAH FRUIT, 



Languages, General, Vocal and Drawing Lessons 
Free of Charge. 



ALL ORDERS FILLED WITH 

Special Rates for two or more Members of the same 
The Best in the Market, Family attending the Academy at 

the same time. 
AND AT THE LOWEST PRICES. 



For Terms and Full Particulars, address, "The 

CORRESPONDKSfCE SOLICITED AND PROMPTLY .\NSWERED. ' SistCl'S of the Holy CrOSS, Ogdcu, Utah." 



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F. B. HURLBUT, 



I^rugs and TVledieines, 



OILS AND VARNISHES, 



Toilet Articles and Wall Paper. 



BROOM HOTEL CORNER, - OGDEN, UTAH. 



THE CENTRAL HOTEL, 



Fifth Street, between Young and Franklin, 



oa-iDEitT, TJT^s:. 



Pleasantly Located. Convenient to Depot. The 
Leading Family Hotel in the City. 



T. C. CHAMBERLAIN, 



Proprietor. 



J. S. HOUTZ, 



(Successor to Sears & Liddle,) 



IMPORTER AND DEALER IN 



GEO. H. TRIBE, 

Wholesale and Retail Dealer in 

DRY GOODS, CARPETS, BOOTS & SHOES 



-"AINTS rillS AND WlNFinW PlASV <^i^o<^eries and general merchandise. 

FOURTH STREET. 



General Dealer in Grain, Flour and Seeds. 



Agent for Heath & Milltigan Go's Best 
Prepared Paints. 



MAIN street, 



OGDEN, UTAH. 



Wines, Liqunrs and Eigars, 

MAIN STREET. 



Shipping a Specialty. Orders by Mail will Receive 
Prompt and Careful Attention, 



p. H. TRIBE, OGDEN, UTAH. 



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m 



OmrfMOM 



S) 



WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALEH AND JOBBER IX 

Books, Statioi^ery and Toys. 



-A FULL STOCK OF- 



Day and Sunday School Supplies, Reward Cards and Chromes, Prize Books, "Mormon" Publications, 

Fancy Goods, Games, Periodicals, Works of Art. Fiction, Science, Travel, 

Biography, etc., etc., always on hand. 



ANY BOOK OR PERIODICAL PUBLISHED IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD PROCURED ON 

APPLICATION. 



Dealers supi>lied at bed-rock prices. Send for Catalogue. 

A. H. CANNON, Ogden, Utah. 



THOMAS ASHBY, 

BOOT & SHOE MANUFACTURER 



Keeps a Full Line Constantly on Hand. Every 

I'air Warranted Cheap as Imported. 

Made by Experienced Workmen. 



Boots and Shoes Made to Order on Short Notice. 

Prompt attention paid to Mail Orders. Send 

for Price List I have to measure your foot. 



Manufactory and Salesroom : 



P.O. Box 856. MAIN STREET, OGDEN UTAH. 



G. L. COREY & SONS, • 



DEALERS IN 



STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES 



In-uits, Nuts, Candies and Vegetables. 



FOURTH STREET, 



OGDEN, UTAH. 



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THE 



v\^.' "5. y' i > A il ^tk i > A 



T 



HiDBS, Skins and Wool, 



oo-HDEisr, tjotj^^h:. 



V. M. C. SILVA, Pres. and Treas. 
J. E. HUDSON, V. Pres. 



warehouses: 
OGDEN, UTAH. 
POCATELLO, IDAHO. 



MARKS. GOLDSMITH & CO., 

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL CLOTHIERS. 

Always Offer Special Inducements in the Way 
of Low Prices. 



MEN'S AND BOY'S CLOTHING, 

Suitable for the Seasons always on hand in Endless 

Variety. Our Stock of Furnishing Goods is 

Large and Complete. Blankets and 

Quilts, Rubber Boots and Shoes, 

Trunks and Valises at 

Reduced Prices. 




rriT 



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EAGLE ROLLER MILLS, 



Cash Purchasers will find it to their interest to 
examine our stock before purchasing elsewhere. 



MAIN STREET, 



OGDEN, UTAH. 



BEAR THIS FACT IN MIND, 

That we are turning out some of the Choicest 
Brands of Roller Flower ever made in the West. 
Utah Wheat, when properly handled, makes finest 
grade of Flour that it is possible to produce. This 
Mill is filled with the best and latest improved 
machinery, and is in charge of a Scientific Miller. 

Correspondence solicited. All kinds of Mill 
Products always on hand. 

GEO. A. LOWE, Lessee, 

Ogden, Utah. 



Nelson's Livery, Feed and Sale Stable, 



HALF BLOCK SOUTH OF BROOM HOTEL. 



CARRIAGES FURNISHED AT ALL HOURS DAY AND NIGHT. 



C. A. NELSON & CO., Proprietors. 



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OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST 



THE 



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All p:ro])i:(,'J': ^ co;\i:m.(.s.sio.\ c 



A. ROGERS, Jr., Manager. 



WHOLESALE DEALERS L\ 



Fruits, Produce, Eggs, Butter, Oysters, Etc. 



California Fruits and Vegetables, 



Verdelli, Messina and California Lenion.s, Utah Ranch Eggs, 



Utah Fruits and Vegetables, Cape Cod Cranberries, 

Jamaica, Florida and California Oranges, Michigan Apple Cider, 



Sweet Potatoes, 
Grain, Seeds, Etc. 



JOBBER IN 



IMPORTED & DOMESTIC CIGARS 



AKD MANUFACTURER'S AGENT. 



OC3-IDEIT, "CTT-iLH. 



Branch Offices: 



Cincinnati, 0., 88 Race Street. 

San Francisco, Cal., 119 Pine Street. 



Correspondence solicited. Strict attention paid 
to Mail orders the sarae (Jay received, 



Lumber ! 



Lumber ! 



Invites the Public to call and see the Largest 
and Best Assorted Stock of 

LUMBKR 

Ever carried in this Market, and is prepared to fill all bills at the 
Lowest Market Price. 



I have also a large stock of Redwood, Xative Shingles, Lath, Pickets, 
Cedar Posts, Doors, Sash, Blinds, Mouldings, t;lass and Mi.\ed Paints, 
Builders Hardware, Hnilding Paper, and all kinds of Building Material. 

Call and get prices before buying elsewhere. Orders by .Mail solicited. 
Don't fail to write for prices. I am also prepared to supply Wholesale 
Dealers with all kinds of Dimension Lumber, Flooring, Rustic and Mould- 
ing from my mill at Xorth Powder, Oregon. 

ORDERS SOLICITED 

From along the Union Pacific, Utah and Northern, and Oregon 
Short Line Railways. 



DON'T FORGET THE PLACE ! 
Corner Fourth and Franklin Streets, • OGDFN, UTAH. 



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55 



H. C. TAVEY. 



REESE HOWELL. 



TAM \ pOWELL, 



Main Street, Opposite Post Office, OGDEN, UTAH, 



DEALERS IN ALL KINDS OF 



Dry Goods, 



EENTS' FURNISHING EflnnS, 



HATS, CAPS, BOOTS, SHOES AND GROCERIES. 



CONSOLIDATED 

IMPLEMENT COMPANY, 

SUCCESSORS TO 

SNOW, HOLBROOK & CO., Salt Lake. 
NAYLOR & PIKE, Salt Lake. 

BURTON, HERRICK & WHITE, Ogden, 
SOUTHERN FORWARDING CO., Milfurd. 

SOLE AGENTS FOR 

TheWorll Renowaed "Cooper" U "RushM" Wapns, 

CARRIAGES, BUGGIES AND BUCKBOARDS. 



Agents for the Celebrated Carfirs Bazar Paper Patterns for 

Ladies' and Children's Wear. These Patterns are twenty 

per cent. Cheaper than any other Reliable 

Patterns in the Market. Send for Fiee 

Catalogue of Patterns. 



Our Motto is "Good Goods and Low Prices." Careful 
attention given to Orders by Mail. Remember the Place, 
Apposite Post Office. 



McCORIVIIGK 

Steel Mowers, Reapers and Binders. 

Canton, Clipper and .J. I. Case Steel and Chilled 

Plows, Tricycles, Sulkies, Harrows, Cultivators, 

Etc., Garden Tools, Seed Drills, Fanning 

Mills, Barbed Wire, Stoves, and 

Wagon Material. 



PLACES OF BUSINESS: 
Salt Lake City, Ogden, Logan, Milford. 



ERASTUS SNOW, President, 

BARNARD WHITE, Vice President, 

FRANK R. SNOW, Sec'y and Treas. 

DIRECTORS: 
Moses Thatcher, Wm. B. Preston, 

L. Holbrook, Wm. W. Burton. 



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OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST : 




'lOvAlX^E OILER 



-♦• 





/J/V-j'® 



^ 



PEERY & MACK, Proprietors, 

IVjanufactur'er^ of the Finest \\Mz^ of \q\W Flourt. 



FINE FLOUE, 
CORN MEAL, 



GRAHAM, 
OAT MEAL, 



BRAN, 

SHORTS, 



GRAIN, 

FEED. 



Correspondence Solicited and Satisfaction Guaranteed. 



l^J^TlSr STE.EET, 



OC3-IDE3Sr CIT"Y", TTTJ^H. 



Ogden Academy. 



Hi 



gGDEN ACADEMY, under the New West 
Education Commission, supplies the people of 
1^ Ogden and surroundino- towns an academy 
worthy of the name. Officered at present by four 
teachers. Prof W. H. Rins^- being principal, careful 
work can be done in all departments. Ogden 
Academy building is a two-story structure of seven 
rooms, it overlooks from its location on the bench 
the rest of the city. Soon a boarding house will be 
opened in connection with the school. 

The well known reputation of the "New West" 
for o-ood schools justifies the statement that first- 
class instruction will at all times be given at this 
institution. 

For fiirther information write to the principal. 



The Largest in the TErritnry, 



And Beautifully Located, within a twenty minutes 

walk of the Business Part of the City, are now 

in Full Bearing, producing all the 

Choicest Varieties of 



i<^liTT0 S>^f) SS^^f^H^^ 



THE CLIMATE WILL PRODUCE. 



CAHOON & ROBINSON, Proprietors, 



OGIDEISr, TJT^HI. 



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P, H. EMERSON, 

ATTORNEY - AT - LAW, 

Office over Utah National Bank, Corner Fourth 
and Main. P. O. Box 802. 

L. R. ROGERS, 

ATTORNEY - AT - LAW, 

OGDEN, UTAH. 

Office, Guthrie Block, Fourth Street, between Main 
and Young. 



JAMES N. KIMBALL. 



W. R. WHITK. 



KIBALL & WHITE, 

ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, 

Fourth Street, 

OGDEN, - - - UTAH. 

C, C, RICHARDS & HENRY H, ROLAPP, 

ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, 

OGDEN, UTAH. 

Office at County Court House. 



RANSFORD SMITH. 



H. W. SMITH. 



SMITH & SMITH, 

LAWYERS, 

OGDEN, - - UTAH. 

Office, Up Stairs in Commercial National Bank 
Block, South Side Fourth Street. 

A. R. HEYWOOD, 

ATTORNEY - AT - LAW, 

OGDEN, UTAH. 



HAVE YOU SEEN THE NEW HIGH ARM, LIGHT RUNNING 

eiMOMM. 

It has no equal for range of work, perfection of stitoh and durability. Machines sold on easy terms. 
Liberal discount for casli. Consult y(nu- own interest and buy only the new high arm Singer, it will last 
you longer and give you better work than any other Machine on earth. 

Office, Dooly Block, Fourth Street, OGDEN, UTAH. C. L. LEAViTT, Agent. 



ALFRED H. NELSON. 



Oa-IDE!±T, TJT^EC. 



I^eal Estate IVjattiBi' and pi^obate Bu^ine^^ a ^pecialt^. 



1 have a complete set of Abstracts of Title to 
all Lands in Weber County, which have been com- 
piled at great labor and expense and are guaran- 
teed to be accurate. There are many bad titles. 
Before you buy land, or take a mortgage, procure 
an abstract and avoid all danger of loss, 



Sidney Stevens, 



Sole Agent for LTtah, Idaho, South Montana, East 
Nevada and West Wyoming for the leading 
Machinery, Vehicles and Implements of the age, 
consisting in part of the Deering all steel Binders, 
Reajaers and Mowers, Stickle and Haines Headers. 
Gaar, Scott & Co. Engines, Threshers and Saw 
Mills. Hoosier Drill Co. Drills and Seeders. 
Wilcox Steel Frame Steel tooth Harrows, Eagle 
Steel Wheel hay rakes. Victor Steel lined hay 
presses. Rock Island Sulky Gang and walking 
Plows. Acme hay Gatherers and Rickers. The 
leading and most reliable Buggies, Carriages, Phae- 
tons, Sulkies, Carts, Farm and Spring Wagons. 
Barb Wire, Iron Roofing, etc. etc. 

Send and get my price list and save money. 
Reliable agents wanted everywhere. 

SIDWEY STEVENS, 

OGDEN, UTAH. 



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OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST 



OR THE GREAT IRON SPRINGS. 

Located Plight Miles North of Ogden City, Utah. 

THE GREATE ST WATER CURE OF THE WORLD. 

Reposinp in the bosom of the Great Salt Lake Valley, and flowing from 
the base of the Wasatch Mountains. 

These Springs have the merited reputation of being one of the wonders 
of the world ; and seekers of pleasure and lovers of sight-seeing, as well as 
tho.se in search ol health, will l)e amply jjaid by visiting them. 

Go and try the virtues of these waters. One trial only is necessary to 
convince the sufferer. Good hotel accommodations, livery attention shown to 
invalids. 

Nature has united her forces, and, with her marvelous powers, has 
wrought a combination of hajipy influences which have centralized this fortu- 
nate valley of the mountains. The grand location of these Springs with the 
cliffs and rugged environs, is not the incentive which attracts so many thous- 
ands from the shores of every country. Il is the balsamic waters which gush 
forth from these Springs and pour their healing offerings into every hand thai 
will receive them, inurmuring their promises of restoration to every ailing 
body, and there offer to receive the burden of all bodily affliction. 

It is health — the spirit and essence of all true happiness, which hundreds 
of afflicted, who have visited these springs and been cured of the within 
named maladies, can testily that these thermal waters have proven a I'F.R- 
FKCT si'Kcii'ir for kiikumatism (in all its forms) iiVsn-.t'siA, constipation 
(the scat of a score of diseases), piles leaning (in every form), syphilis, 
catarrh, diabetes, or any urinary afi'ections, and the treatment of female 
diseases, has proven the efficacy of these thermal waters from the vast amount 
of iron they contain. In rebuilding since my great loss by fire my bathing 
accommodations are second to none. 

R. H. SLATER, Proprietor. 

N. r!.--Address all correspondence to Tyner Postoflice, Box Elder Co., 
Utah. These Springs are reached by the U. P. Ry., C. P. Ry., U. C. Ry., 
D. & R. O. Ky., and U. & N. Ry., at Ogden City Junction, thence by the 
U. & N. Ry. to these Springs. 



GIESY & SPARGO, 

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DE.VLERS IN 



^MIB) WMlEfS, JPaHlIPJEMo 



Eastern, Western and Local Daily Papers. 



Correspondence solicited and satisfaction guar- 
anteed. Mail orders i*eceive prompt attention. 

Stamps taken to any amount in payment for 
goods. 

Broom Hotel, Main Street, OGDEN, UTAH. 



BROWNING BROS., 



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168 MAIN STREET, 

OGDEN, UTAH, 

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL 



r' 



Firearms, Ammunition, Fisliing Tackle, 

Bicycles, Field Glas.ses, Streets' Traps. Boxing li loves, Indian Clubs, Base Ball Goods, Skates, 
Hammocks, Eye Glasses, Foot Balls, Hunting Boots and Shoes, Tents, or anything . 
else in the Shooting, Fishing, Camping and Sporting Line. 



We have the largest stock in the West, and our Prices are lower than any. Wo also have the best 
equipped liepair Shop in the Country, and are prepared to do all kinds of Fine Gun and Machine Work. 



Large Illustrated Catalogue Free. 



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IjMml.'^. 




H. T, 



wymm; 



JOBBER AND RETAIL DEALER IN 



HARDWARE, STOVES AND TINWARE, 

Sole Agent for Bridge, Beach & Go's Superior Stoves and Ranges; 

Also, Home Comfort Wrought Iron Ranges, and the Howe 

Ventilating Stoves, the best Heating Stoves on earth. 



Two Doors North of Post Office, 



OaDEN, UTAH. 



OMO 




IaO'WM 



t) 



DEALER IN 



i^gr'icultui'al ImplBraent^ 

OF ALL KINDS. 

Wagons, Buggies and Road Carts, Engines, 

Saw Mills and Turbine Wheels, Wagon 

Material, Heavy Hardware, Iron, 

Steel, Barb Wire and Hardwood. 

OGDE/\/ AND SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. 



W&MM 



MMMMm 



COAL AND LIME DEALERS. 



MANUFACTURERS OF THE CORAL WHITE LIME. 



Correspondence Solicited. 



OOIDEIsr, TJT^HI. 



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OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST 




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GROCERIES, PRODUCE AND FRUITS, 



Corner Main and Fourth Streets, OGDEN, UTAH. 



LOW PRICES. PROMPT DELIVERY. GOODS AS REPRESENTED. ORDERS SOLICITED. 



Mf 



BARNARD WHITE, 



'Wholesale and Retail Dealer in all kinds of 



NATIVE AND IMPORTED LUMBER, 

Corner Wall and Fourth Streets, OGDEN, UTAH. 



Doors, Sash and Blinds, Native, Oregon Cedar and California Shingles, Plain, Fancy and Square Pickets, 

Oregon and Truckee Lath, Bodine Roofing, American and French Window Glass, 

Builders Hardware, Building Pajier, Paints and Oils. 

Manufacturer of Store Fronts. Odd sized Doors, Sash and Blinds. Planing, Re-sawing and Scroll Work. 

All kinds of Mill Work a specialty. 

I make Shipping a specialty. All goods packed in first-class order. Correspondence solicited. 



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H. M. BOND. OEO. TOLMIE. 

PROPRIETORS 

Harris Commkrcial Co. 



'J 



COMMISSION IVIERCHANTS, 

WHOLESALE DEALERS IN 

Utah and Qalifornia ]^ruits and Produce. 

BOOTH'S OYSTERS. 

Correspondence Solicited. All Orders Receive Prompt Attention. 
Opposite Chamber of Commerce Rooms, _ _ _ OGDEN, UTAH. 

LYNNE NURSERIES. 

Fi'uit, ^hade ^Or^namental Ti^ee^ l^i'oWn \ for ^ale. 

GEO. SMUIN & CO., Proprietors. 
North Main Street, = OGDEN, UTAH. 

Send for Descriptive Price List. 




W. G. WILSON, 



MANUFACTURER OF 



LOMBER, WOOD AND KINDLING, 



Sawmill in Ogden Canon, Four Miles from 
the City. 



P. 0. Box 253, - - - OGDEN, UTAH. 

Telephone No. 23 at Mill. 



Sawdust for Ice Packing alvpays on hand. 



A. C. EMEESON, 



JOBBER AND RETAIL DEALER IN 



BOOKS AND STATIONERY, 



Blank Books, Periodicals, Leather and Fancy 
Goods, Artists' Materials, Etc. 



P. 0. Box 487. 102 Main Street, OGDEN, UTAH. 



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OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST 



DAVID KAY, 

WHOLESALE DEALER IN 

Grain, Prodoce,Seeds, Dried Fruits, 

Hay, Feed, Flour, Eggs, Salt, Etc., 

IN CAR LOAD LOTS. 

Lumber, Shinj^lcs, Doors, Windows, Ijuth, Fruit 

and Packing Boxes, Building Paper, Window 

and Plate Glass, Barb Wire, Nails, Burlap 

and Seamless Bags, Centals, Twine, 

Paints, Kerosene, Linseed, 

Machine Oils, Etc., 



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STOP OVER IN OGDEN. 



WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN 

Clothing for Men, Youths, Pxjys and Children ! 
Hats and Caps for Everybody ! 

Boots and Shoes of all Styles and Brands! 
Bubcr Goods in their Season! 

DRY GOODS OF ALL DESCRIPTION! 

Notions and Ti'immings of all Kindsl 

Ladies', Misses' and Childrens' Wraps! 

Standard Groceries in Great Yarieties! 
Crockery, Lamps and Glassware! 

A good place to trade as you can purchase ever\ tiling under 
one roof, get an honest deal and prices guaranteed. 

OGDEN, UTAH. 

ADVANCE ROLLER MILLS. 



BROOIVI HOTEL, 

JUDGE GIBBONS, Prop., 



The Broom Hotel has been refitted, ami is now 
under the new management. 



This Mill has Just been Completed and Fitted Out 
with all of the 

LATEST IMPROVED MACHINERY 

And the Proprietors are Now Prepared to 
Furnish all of the 

BEST GRADES OF PATENT FLOUR 

At Prices that Defy Conpetition. 



THE BEST HOTEL BETWEEN OMAHA AND SAN FRANCISCO. Graham, Corn Meal, Shorts and Mill Ih'oduc-ts 

of all Kinds Ahvays on Hand. 

FIRST-CLASS ACCOMMODATIONS. 

Correspondence from a Distance Solicited. 

Bar and Billiard Hall in Connection. ' Every Sack of Flouf Warranted to Give Satisfaction. 



Wines, Liquors, Cigars, Etc. 

JUDGE GIBBONS, Prop. 



Clark & Eccles, Prop., 

OGDEN CrrY, UTAH. 



ITS MANUFACTURING AND BUSINESS ADVANTAGES. 



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WM. DRIVER & SON, 

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRUGGISTS, 



OCS-DElsr, UT^^H. 



We are Manufacturers' Agents for all the leading lines of 
goods that we carry. Having made arrangements with all the 
leading houses to represent them in Ogden and the surround- 
ing country, we can offer better inducements than have been 
offered before on the same class of goods, In many lines of 
staple and patent medicines we buy in sufficient quantities to 
have them delivered to us, thereby saving the great expense 
of freight. This enables us to sell at the same prices as manX 
of the Eastern houses. 

We carry at all times a large and well assorted stock of 
Medicines, Fancy Goods, Drugs, Toilet Articles, Druggists' 
Sundries, etc. Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Brushes, Wines and 
Liquors for Medical purposes. 

Branch Houses at Logan, Utah, and Montpelier, Idaho. 

Write for prices or send us a trial order. Mail orders 
promptly attended to. 



T. C. MORRIS 

House, Sign, Carriage and Decorative 



House Painting in the Latest Style. Paper Hanging, Plain or Decorative. 

Calcimining in all Tints. Graining, all Varieties. Gilding, the 

Brightest. Glazing of Every Kind. 

None but Thorough Workmen Employed! 

None but the Best of Material Used! 



BEST PUCE IN TEE CITI TO GET A PIAII OR ORSAMEITAL 



Agency for Enamel Letters for Window Signs. 



SHOP, MAIN ST., OPPOSITE Z, C. M. I , 

OGDEN, UTAH. 



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Respectfully invite every person visiting Ogdeu to call and examine 

their Immense Stock of 

Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, Boots, Shoes, 

FURNISHING GOODS AND GROCERIES, 

Truok:s, Valises, Hand Bags, Stiawl Straps, Ktc. 

Which they will Sell Wholesale or Retail at Bed-rock Prices. 
''Competition We Defy," is their Motto. 



Main Street, North of Z. C. M. I., . - - OGDEN, UTAH. 






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OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST : 



HEBER J. GRANT President, J. F. GRANT, Vice President, Gr:0. T. ODEI.L, Treasurer. R. S. WELLS, Secretary. 



F. M. Lyman, 
John Henry Smith, 
Abram Hatch, 



Orson A. Woollev, 
W. W. Riter, 
Joseph F. Smith, 



C. S. Burton, 
J. F. Wells, 
Geo. Romney. 



THE CO-OpEpVE WAI^OW \ 1V[ACHIME GO. 



SOLE AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED 



MITCHELL m BAII FARM AID SPRM WAGOIS, BUGGIES AID CARTS. 

John Deero and ^lolino Plow.><, Harrows, Etc., (Jale and Oliver Cliilled Plow.s, Massillion and 

Buffalo Pitts Treshers, Engines and Saw Mills, (»ale and Tiger Iron Wheel Hay 

Hakes, Walter A. Wood's Harvesting Machinery, Concord Harness, Etc. 



P. O. Box 702, OGDEN, UTAH. 



E. T. WOOLLEY, Manager Ogden Branch. 



MANUFACTUEING CONFECTIONERS. 



Importers and Jobbers of a General Line of Merchandise, Comprising 

Dfi] (qood^ and potion^, [lati^, Boot^ and ^hoe^, 

Lamp Fixtures, Tinware, Wooden and Willow Ware, Uroceries, Toys. Dolls, and a General Line 

of Holiday Goods in the Season. 

JOHN SCOWCROFT & SONS, 

is/CJLznsr STK.EE1T, - - - - oa-TDEHsr, TJTA.ia:. 



The Union Pacific Railway, 



OPERATING THK 



UTAH AND Itf£SVADA RAILIATAY^ 

Beg to announce the opening of their New Bathing and Pleasure Resort, 



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On the southern shore of Great Salt Lake, a few minutes' ride from Salt Lake City. 




A Magnificent Pavieion, 
(dimensions 165x65 feet,) 
built over the water 400 
feet from the shore, (ap- 
proached by a pier over 
300 feet in length) with a 
tower in the center over- 
looking the Lake on all 
sides. 

Over Two Hundred Ele- 
gant Dressing Rooms with 
stationary wash-stands, 
showers for rinsing off the 
salt water of the Lake, 
mirrors and every comfort 
and convenience for bath- 
ers, suggested by long 
experience. 

A Handsome Station Building (350x50 feet) of the latest improved design, with high tower in 
the center. 

^ Grand Go"*^®''^ i" ^® Pauilion G^^i'y" ?Lf'^''"oo"' 

I3at5ing guits for {^adies, Gentlemen and G'^'^'^''^"' 

The Refreshment Saloon, equipped with all the appointments of a first-class establishment, where 
the choicest refreshments will be dispensed by polite attaches. 

The Restaurant and Lunch Stand, equal to any first-class hotel in the West, at 'moderate prices. 

The Bathing Grounds. — This is the only bathing resort on the entire Lake Shore, having a clean 
sandy beach, f'free from mud, rocks and offensive vegetable matter. Ladies and children may 
bathe here with perfect safety, owing to the density of the water being so great that one may 
float upon the surface without an effort. 

The Giants' Cave (only a short distance from the beach. ~) is an additional attraction of this delight- 
ful resort. It is an opening extending over 300 feet into the mountain side, with a ceiling from 
10 to 75 feet in height. 

Trains Run at Frequent Intervals. 

FARE, SALT LAKE CITY TO GARFIELD BEACH AND RETURN, ONLY 50 CENTS. 

W. W. RITER, Superintendent. S. F. FENTON, G. F. £- F. Agt. 

For additional information apply to 



J. S. TEBBETTS, Gen' I Pass. Agt., 
Omaha, Neb. 



E. S. LOM.^X, Ass't Gen'lFass. Agt., 
Omaha, Neb. 



J. V. PARKER, Bivts. Fass. Agt., 
Salt Lake City, Utah. 



She |utf r - lloMutiiiu |§etthattt, 

THK LEADING BUSINKSS JOURNAL OF THE WEST; 

Official Oi^gaq of the Ogden dhambei' of (lommei'cB. 

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